Dan Lukiv

Poems for Jonathan Swift Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

Previously published as Spuds for Jonathan (The Brobdingnagian Times Press [Cork, Ireland], 2001).

An excerpt

Finch-Folly

An arrowhead,
As chiselled as Rome,
Is so unlike an eyeball
Trudging out of carbon-
Soup.

And a house,
Without human hand
For inhuman clay,
Was never built,
Was certainly never
An arrowhead,

But an ear-
Its womb filled with
Primeval slop-
Is soup incarnate,
A bee in Beethoven's
Cochlea,
A quarter note
In a song of war.

But do not re-read
This poem
That nobody wrote.

Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Krax (England), The Cariboo Observer (Canada), McNaughton Yearbook (Canada), Spaced Out! (Canada), *spark (Canada), The Speaker (Canada), The Buzz (Canada), Afterthoughts (Canada), Coffee Break (Canada), The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education (Canada), The Journal of Poetry Therapy (USA), The Green Tricycle (USA), Writing (USA), Coffee Bean Shop (USA), Poetic License (USA), Fullosia Press (USA), Timber Creek Review (USA), You Can't Take it With You (USA), Up Dare? (USA), The Sunflower Dream (USA), Creative Juices (USA), MOON Magazine (USA), Meditations (USA), Hear Our Voices! (USA), Poetic Realm (USA), Omnific (USA), The Path Not Taken (USA), Artslink (South Africa), and The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.