Book III-Job to the Song of Solomon, poetry

An excerpt, a poem based on chapter three of Job

Take a skin-bottle
Of wine and toss it from
The height of an eagle's nest,

Smash a stone jar,
And watch the waters rush
Into the street,
To disappear like mists upon
Meadows in the rising sun,

Press out the flame of a wick
And render the candle
Useless,

Let the man ride Leviathan
Beneath cold waves,
For a moment,

Let a rock from a high crag
End it all upon a skull
Deadened by its own
Despair,

Let thoughts end in
That place where gloom hatches
Eggs that reveal hideous
Memories of a failed life,

Watch the bramble bush roll
Across the wilderness
And disappear from sight.

Yes, the bramble bush,
Void of violet flowers and
Red berries,
Rolling, rolling,
Gone.

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).