Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Previously published as Poems of Malady (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2007). An excerpt My Uncle With Cancer I found him, skeletal And ring-eyed, Stepping between fall leaves On the asphalt shingles. "Uncle Billy. What'er ya Doin' up there?" He looked down at me on the grass And yelled, somewhat weakly, "I changed all the washers today, And I had a couple of leaks to tar up." He waved a hammer- A sceptre against dark clouds. "Gotta get the place ship shape For your Auntie Elsie before I Kick the bucket." 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).