North: after the storm, all dust hung up<\/p>\n
in the crowded air, with his human face<\/p>\n
frozen into a dot of dust<\/p>\n
and a rising speckle of dust<\/p>\n
melted into his face<\/p>\n
to avoid this cold climate<\/p>\n
of his antarctic dream<\/p>\n
he relocated his naked soul<\/p>\n
at the dawn of summer<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
South:\u00a0like a raindrop on a small lotus leaf<\/p>\n
unable to find the spot<\/p>\n
to settle itself down<\/p>\n
in an early autumn shower<\/p>\n
my little canoe drifts around<\/p>\n
near the horizon<\/p>\n
beyond the bare bay<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Center: deep from the thick forest<\/p>\n
a bird\u2019s call echoes<\/p>\n
from ring to ring within each tree<\/p>\n
hardly perceivable<\/p>\n
before it suddenly<\/p>\n
dies off into the closet<\/p>\n
of a noisy human mind<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
West: not unlike a giddy goat<\/p>\n
wandering among the ruins<\/p>\n
of a long lost civilization<\/p>\n
you keep searching in the central park<\/p>\n
a way out of the tall weeds<\/p>\n
as nature makes new york<\/p>\n
into a mummy blue<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
East:\u00a0in her beehive-like room<\/p>\n
so small that a yawning stretch<\/p>\n
would readily awaken<\/p>\n
the whole apartment building<\/p>\n
she draws a picture on the wall<\/p>\n
of a tremendous tree that keeps growing<\/p>\n
until it shoots up<\/p>\n
from the cemented roof<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Yuan Changming, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of 5 chapbooks (including Kinship [2015] and The Origin of Letters [2015]), is the most widely published poetry author who speaks Chinese but writes in English. Growing up in a remote village, Yuan began to learn the English alphabet at 19 and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver and, since mid-2005, has had poetry appearing in 1049 literary journals\/anthologies across 34 countries, including Best Canadian Poetry (2009,12,14), BestNewPoemsOnline, Cincinnati Review and Threepenny Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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