"And Jehovah Proceeded To," poetry

First Edition: Published in Academic Exchange Extra (University of Northern Colorado [Greeley, CO]), 2009, April. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction Written (in 1512 BCE) by Moses in the Sinai wilderness, one year after the Israelites' famed escape from Egypt, Leviticus covers one lunar month in 27 chapters. The book prepares these people, on their way to the dissolute land of Canaan, for moral and spiritual survival. An excerpt Chapter 1 Abraham also offered you,

Little turtledove, perhaps

Snaring one of your skinny legs,

As you pecked away at grain or

Seeds or clover, between your

"Turr-r-r turr-r-r," your plaintive

Cry of freedom and shyness and

Quick escapes into the sweet

Sky. With your head nipped off

And your blood drained on the

Altar's side, your sacrifice

(A poor mother's cost)

Would stand by sons and daughters

Born crooked,

Even by a greater Isaac born

Straight. 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).