Eileen, Mother of Eric Ivan Berg, poems

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

Previously published as Poems Straight From Quesnel (Quesnel Writers' Group, 1997).

An excerpt

Granville's Caf

Coffee-customers
Laugh, squeal,
Interpret laughs,
Sip, grimace, snort,
Try to get free re-fills,
Poke at smoke rings,
Drink Jet Fuel
(Two shots of cappuccino
In a milk shake),
Praise lead guitarists as
Obscure as Johnny Winter,
Condemn ismism,
Dream about fortunes,
And power-
Which one wouldn't admit
To dreaming about-

Admit to living Freudian/Jungian
Jungle lives
In which "east is east
And west is west"-
And if anybody forces the
Two together,
Quick tongues
Kill the romance,
Make pride scarlet,
Like cappuccino-bitterness
On a taste bud.

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.