Not Under Arktos, the Bear, poetry

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

Previously published as Est n En Su Casa, poetry (ETONSA, South Africa, 2002).

Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of canadian content (Canada), A Journal of Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics (Canada), *spark (Canada), Word is Out (Canada), The Cariboo Observer (Canada), Authors (Canada), CHALLENGER international (Canada), The Poet's Corner (USA), Coffee Bean Shop (USA), The Journal (USA), Hidden Oaks Poetry Journal (USA), Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream (USA), Poetic Voices (USA), Deepsouth (New Zealand), Current Accounts (England), Electric Acorn (Ireland), ars poetica (Australia), Redoubt (Australia), and Artslink (South Africa).

An excerpt

Once a Military Wonderland

Jezreel, desolate-
Layered in earth and
Bone,
Hid Naboth's blood,
Fed dogs
Jezebel's torso,
Gave Elijah lungs
To condemn,
Boasted Ahab's 70
Heads
In two piles by the city
Gate.

Jezreel, unearthed by spade,
Of the Iron Age,
Dry moat
And great walls,

Jezreel gone
Like Ozymandias,
Solomon too.

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.