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Gift Exchange on the Valentine’s Day
A
Single
Rose
In
Hand
For
All
The
Springs
On
Earth
Predetermined Encountering at a Passport Office
I don’t know your name
Nor will I get any idea about
Your age, your family, your work
Your daily routine or idiosyncrasy
(Which is irrelevant anyway)
But I always remember the muted music
Of your breath, the compressed smell of your spirit
Especially your blooming serenity and elegance
Alas, how can I ever forget you did not even
Bother to take a look at me, although for this
Very meeting, all the three trillion cells
In my body have been beseeching
So many stars in the parallel universe
For the past five hundred years
To arrange for us to see each other, although only
Once in a lifetime
While myriads of raindrops beat against our drums alike
Towards another summer evening
Touring Test
There is no solution to this
Problem of the other mind
Hosted in my bedmate’s body:
After 35 years of marriage
Are you a cyborg human, or
Am I a human cyborg? Perhaps
We are both dreaming in a virtual world
Like a lost intelligent robot?
Kharma Cast: A Mega Romance
It has taken the entire human history
For her and him
To meet
To be together, and
Sure, they will spend
All their futures alone
On an earth
Newly broken off
From this planet
One Tree That Makes a Whole Forest
Instead of reaching deep
Into the ground, you hung all your roots
On your twigs in the wild open, trying
To absorb both air and light directly
As well as darkness and cold
Ready to connect to soil and water
Growing from a single seed into a huge forest
That’s the secret of banyan
The secret about karma
Facts to Be Fictioinalised
Bury facts deep
So that in the future
Nothing could be dug out
From underneath the ruins of history
But in these moments when words still hold
A wind arises, blowing
Across the mind
Stories are spreading everywhere
Told and retold within a larger story
Are but an entire other era
Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Naji Naaman's Literary Prize 2018, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1,449 others worldwide.
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