The Poet, poems

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Exchange Program (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 1999). // An excerpt // Coleridge // As opium-sweat / Beads on your brow / And your pay-the-rent / Newspaper columns remain / Closed tombs / In your ship-tossed / Mind, / Your wife grinds her teeth, / Your child nurses what's left, / And flames in the fireplace / Flicker with Wordsworth. // As opium-sweat / Mats your hair / And stings your eyes, / You compose / Your "Kubla Khan," / Like a deaf Beethoven, / Like a night-crazed Mozart, / Like a rabid dog / Alone on a raft / At sea.

• | Author: Dan Lukiv
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: November 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 28 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1707092834
• | ISBN-13: 9781707092833