White Fog

First Edition: Fullosia Press (USA), 2002. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2022. An excerpt The Circle He fogs up the cool glass
With warm breath,
And then wipes a circle. He peers out-
A submarine commander
Looking through a periscope,
Looking for something
To shoot. But the power is fleeting,
Like a guffaw,
Or a sigh. He would cry,
But the muscles in his neck
Are too taut,
Too painful,
And the lump in his throat
Is too hard. He exhales again,
Harder this time,
And draws a bigger circle
To peer through. But he will not cry,
Even if it kills him. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).