Dan Lukiv

Outer Limits, poetry Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2021.

Previously published as A Boy on A Horse, poetry (The Online Writer, USA, 2003).

An excerpt

Local Boys

We practiced dying,
The local boys and I,
Contorting in Untouchable
Shadows, falling over board fences,
Jerking, twisting in pain on weedful
Lawns, practicing for the big contest.
"Let's find out who can
Die best!"
The Eliot Ness of 27th Avenue,
The boy with the Tommy Gun, yelled:
"Ratatatatatata!" He fired gleefully
At a "Valentine's Day" line up
Of Olivier-performers
Scattering like bats.

Sometimes I won, and that was
A great day, to die, twitching in the sun,
Better than all the other boys.

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.