Poems for Jonathan Swift

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Previously published as Spuds for Jonathan (The Brobdingnagian Times Press [Cork, Ireland], 2001). An excerpt Finch-Folly An arrowhead,

As chiselled as Rome,

Is so unlike an eyeball

Trudging out of carbon-

Soup. And a house,

Without human hand

For inhuman clay,

Was never built,

Was certainly never

An arrowhead, But an ear-

Its womb filled with

Primeval slop-

Is soup incarnate,

A bee in Beethoven's

Cochlea,

A quarter note

In a song of war. But do not re-read

This poem

That nobody wrote. Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Krax (England), The Cariboo Observer (Canada), McNaughton Yearbook (Canada), Spaced Out! (Canada), *spark (Canada), The Speaker (Canada), The Buzz (Canada), Afterthoughts (Canada), Coffee Break (Canada), The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education (Canada), The Journal of Poetry Therapy (USA), The Green Tricycle (USA), Writing (USA), Coffee Bean Shop (USA), Poetic License (USA), Fullosia Press (USA), Timber Creek Review (USA), You Can't Take it With You (USA), Up Dare? (USA), The Sunflower Dream (USA), Creative Juices (USA), MOON Magazine (USA), Meditations (USA), Hear Our Voices! (USA), Poetic Realm (USA), Omnific (USA), The Path Not Taken (USA), Artslink (South Africa), and The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa. 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).