Dan Lukiv

Malady, poems Dan Lukiv

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

Previously published as Poems of Malady (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2007).

An excerpt

My Uncle With Cancer

I found him, skeletal
And ring-eyed,
Stepping between fall leaves
On the asphalt shingles.
"Uncle Billy. What'er ya
Doin' up there?"

He looked down at me on the grass
And yelled, somewhat weakly,
"I changed all the washers today,
And I had a couple of leaks to tar up."
He waved a hammer-
A sceptre against dark clouds.
"Gotta get the place ship shape
For your Auntie Elsie before I
Kick the bucket."

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.