Dinner for Two, poems

By Dan Lukiv

Previously published for a poetry reading at McNaughton Centre (Quesnel, BC, 2007), entitled The Couple From England, poems . Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC, 2021). An excerpt Local Boys We practised dying, The local boys and I, Contorting in Untouchable Shadows, falling over board fences, Jerking, twisting in pain on weedful Lawns, practising for the big contest. "Let's find out who can Die best!" The Eliot Ness of 27th Avenue, The boy with the Tommy Gun, yelled: "Ratatatatatata!" He fired gleefully At a "Valentine's Day" line up Of Olivier-performers Scattering like bats. Sometimes I won, and that was A great day, to die, twitching in the sun, Better than all the other boys. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1690644265
• ISBN13: 9781690644262
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"