Rocky Mountain-Holiday, poet

By Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

Previously published as Between the Gums (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2008).

An excerpt

Not Under Arktos, the Bear

An ice-tide of breadth,
Shrinking and spreading in earth flow,
Circling a fish drawn up and solid
In five seconds,
And steel dropped, turned to shards.
Brutal beauty, this ice-desert-
Home of the wingless midge
And Aristotelian balance to the
North Bulk.

See the Ross Ice Shelf,
Big as France,
Fed by seven solid floes,
Puking ice berg cities
Of blue mammoth
For chinstrap penguins
To jabber on.

James Cook awed and repelled and attracted
By windswept blue
Ice-islands
Sloshed and dunked by tyrannosaurus teeth
Of sea-salt and whirl.

Send the gold-rush skins of blood-bare
Seals to China and Europe and other closets.
Step on mainland moss that can't hide
One print for one decade.
Dig a great heal into this humpbackless,
Ozoneless antipode.

This ice-fist freezes
What it can.

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 171075933X
• ISBN13: 9781710759334
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"