Dan Lukiv

United They Stood, poetry Dan Lukiv

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, 2021).

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 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.