Coleridge, and other poems

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Men and Women (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 1999). // An excerpt // Dinner for Two // White wine, soft jazz, / An awkward touch, / An eye's occasional twinkle, / Eons interrupted / With words like, "You were born / Where?" / Then dinner arrives. / Cutlery clinks; / The man and lady thank the / Ramrod-waiter. // The man winks; / Boldness swells / In his lungs. / He slices through / Cordon bleu. / "I've never had cordon green, / Either," he says, laughing. / Her upper lip twists / Into an Elvis-lifeline. / His eyes widen as the knife / Opens the protein-bolus-- / "Yuck!" he exclaims, / "It looks like puss inside!" // He laughs. / She, / Beneath her ballerina-bun, / Halts in time, like a poem, / With unchewed cordon bleu / In her gape. // He laughs again, / And then chews heartily.

• • Author: Dan Lukiv
• • Publisher: Independently published
• • Publication Date: Nov 14, 2019
• • Number of Pages: 25 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1708298266
• • ISBN-13: 9781708298265