at the staff meeting, haiku and senryu

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

Previously published as a swarm of blackbirds (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 2014).

An excerpt

scientists opened

a big clam to find out its

age*-then it died

*507 years

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.