Quesnel, Between the two Rivers

First Edition: Quesnelnews.com (Quesnel, BC), 2000.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria,, BC), 2022.

An excerpt

Night-Loons

The night, like this dock,

Is mine:

The dark waves of Dragon Lake

Look oily-

Hardly a ripple-

As loons cry

(Their voices disturb me),

And I wonder:

Would I be happy

If I could remember everything

I've forgotten?

Another loon cries:

The sound is hollow and cold,

Like echoes in a barge.

I wonder:

Have I ever actually

Seen a loon?

I can't remember.

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).