Dan Lukiv

The Couple From England, poems Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition: LukivPress (2021), Canada.

Previously published as Not Just Another Day (Poetree, 2000, USA).

An excerpt

Rocky Mountain-Holiday

Wiper blades lop off
Night-rain:

An AM-sad song
Becomes squelch.

"Are you deaf?" she says.

Headlight beams
Blind them.

Rocky Mountain-teeth
Saw ice-wind
That rocks the pick up.

He flicks the wiper-switch
To "high";
The blades leap into a useless
Frenzy.

A road-sign glows:
"Banff 80 km".

"I can't stand the squelch," she says.
He says, "Neither can I"
And turns off
The radio.

She adds, "This is dangerous"
Above the "wop-wop" of the blades.

But he just watches
Two more beams
Scatter across the
Wet windshield.

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.