United They Stood, poetry

Previously published as The Wise Man:

First Edition: Writers Brew Press, England, 1999.

Second Edition: Serialized in Over the Edge (University of Northern British Columbia), Canada, 1999/2000.

Third Edition: Published in The Poet's Haven, USA, 2005.

Fourth Edition: Published in CHALLENGER international, Canada, 2013.

Revised Edition: Entitled United They Stood (LukivPress, Canada, 2022).

An excerpt

The Lineage

Assyrian jaw-hooks

In sundry bleeding;

Such fish

On a clothesline.

This march of joy,

This lineage of Nimrod-

Celebrated with wine

And roasted flesh

And laughter.

This was the day

Samson lost his eyes,

And the Waldenses their blood.

This was the day

Another Canaanite

Shot a bloody arrow

Through some man's

Liver.

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).