The Bouquet, poetry

First Edition: Poetry reading at McNaughton Centre, a secondary alternate school (Quesnel, BC), December 13, 2006. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. An excerpt The Winter Coat Friday afternoon, 3:00:

She says, "I'm gonna take my coat

To the pawn shop."

"The pawn shop?" her teacher says,

Gazing up from her pen.

"Ya. It's still warm out.

I'm gonna use the money

To buy beer." Her face is soft;

She looks happy. Her teacher opens her mouth,

Then closes it as the student

Leaves. 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).