Mars! Mars! Mars!--Poetry

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Life on Mars (Seeker Magazine [Vancouver, BC], 2005). // An excerpt // Corvus Corax--The Raven // Siberian storm front-prophet, / MacBeth-black cloud, / And Poe's ache-- // This trickster, / This ravenous clawer of / Fruits and seeds / And rotting flesh, / This coniferous roamer / And desert nomad, / Croaks like a mournful hag / Or mimics that diminutive / Brainless crow. // Inuit carvers / Immortalize this prankster- / Thief haunting ice fishermen, / This vaudeville clown who dumps / Snow on Yellowknife-victims / Beneath steep metal roofs. // In the torrent valley of Cherith, / You fed Elijah Between ravines and crags, // Your thunderbolt blackness / Filled aerial somersaults / And upside-down fly-bys / In courtship / Or mere play. // You taunt wolves-- / Peck their hairy tails-- / But feast on their feast / Between tricks that / The Haida often recall. // You croak of the glee, the surprise, / The excitement and anger and / Tenderness in the blood / Of every man, / Of every Noah sending forth / A query-- / "Is all well / On dry ground?" // You are the shaggy-throated / Roamer, the blue jay-cousin, / And cleverest passerine. / When you mate, it is for life, / And there is no child abuse / In your beak or claw. // You are the clown of the forest, / The king of the pun.

• • Author: Dan Lukiv
• • Publisher: Independently Published
• • Publication Date: Dec 12, 2019
• • Number of Pages: 45 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1674629931
• • ISBN-13: 9781674629933