PF detail from Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Beach Scene, Guernsey (Children by the Sea in Guernsey) - 1883;

ISSN 
1942-2067


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Changming Yuan grew up in rural China but currently lives in Vancouver. With a PhD in English, Yuan has had poetry published or forthcoming in Barrow Street, Canadian Literature, London Magazine, Queen's Quarterly and more than 150 other literary publications worldwide. Yuan's first collection 'Chansons of a Chinaman' is forthcoming from Leaf Garden Press in September 2009.

On Osler Street, Vancouver West | Black Bird

 

On Osler Street, Vancouver West

somewhere down my neighborhood
as if the sun and moon were melting
all the cherry twigs tinged with spring
like morning glows fallen in the wood

beside the freshly mown lawns I jog
both my steps and breaths in keeping
with every little bare cluster humming
such a sweet tune in the silvery fog

is my residence here but a day dream
or is the day dream my residence here?

 

Black Bird

so little triggers
off

a black bird
the moment of truth

feathered with snow
light

to fly into the vast history of
gray