Arctic Killer, poetry

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

Previously published as The Ruby of the Universe (canadiancontent [Vancouver, BC], 2000).

An excerpt

The Storm

Howling wind,

Rattling windows

Like Ginsberg,

Pounds cold into every

Naked bush

And gasping tree-

A spectacle of

Clawed fingers that

Maul bare skin

And flags that

Tear at Legion-poles

And pagan lights

That implode

Like the USSR.

Hear it howl

Like a gut-shot beast,

Looking for a place

To die.

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.