Dan Lukiv

The Poet, poems Dan Lukiv

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

Previously published as Exchange Program (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 1999).

An excerpt

Coleridge

As opium-sweat
Beads on your brow
And your pay-the-rent
Newspaper columns remain
Closed tombs
In your ship-tossed
Mind,
Your wife grinds her teeth,
Your child nurses what's left,
And flames in the fireplace
Flicker with Wordsworth.

As opium-sweat
Mats your hair
And stings your eyes,
You compose
Your "Kubla Khan,"
Like a deaf Beethoven,
Like a night-crazed Mozart,
Like a rabid dog
Alone on a raft
At sea.

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.