Dan Lukiv

At the Graveyard, poetry Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2021.

Previously published as At the Home (Poetry Magazine [USA], 2000).

An excerpt

At the Graveyard

An old man
On a bench coughs
As children play
Like lion cubs.

He chews lunch-
Corned beef in a can-
And speaks to himself
As one boy secretly
Stares.

Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Green's Magazine, canadian content, Coffee Break, CHALLENGER international, The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, The Cariboo Observer, Western People, spark*, Up Dare? (USA), The Neovictorian/Cochlea (USA), Anthology Magazine (USA), Poetry Magazine (USA), Coffee Bean Shop (USA), Teachers. Net Gazette (USA), Poetry of the People (USA), Fullosia Press (USA), Iraq Daily Newspaper, and The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa.

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.