Reverie

      

By Yuan Changming

Reverie   Gushing   Out of his Frame of Selfhood & flowing Into her Innermost Lake His missing for her Kept splashing Along The wild Stream  Of last night Until it Joins her At dawn Like a waterfall    [June 2022]   Tender in Between   As night Falls Can day Catch it From the other Side of This world?   Meanwhile   The broken heart Is being Caressed by All the fingers Of starlight As tender as Illuminating    [June 2022]     Relay of Love   Living on the opposite sides of The world, we take turns to go To bed, each waking up To become part of the other In the same dream, even About the same moment Day & night Though, alas, on different beds In different time zones   [June 2022]     Having Missed U   On my way To Dao        I was so Constantly Held up In my dream  Of U Of me Of us As to become Two quanta Long lost But as entangled As ever     [June 2022]     In Insomnia   In this Expansive  Moment of Post-midnight There are all The muted Sounds of Thought Hauling An indefinitely Prolonged Trail of feel Like a train Running with Endless cars On a rail Stretching afar Beyond The morning glow     [June 2022]     Gathering   Sitting at every table Is a rearranged array Of familiar shapes of Strange bodies (or Strange shapes of Familiar bodies)   Silhouetting boisterously Against night. Reflecting From the glass are Different colors of your Friends’ voices speaking From disparate distances One from Vancouver, another From Jingzhou, a third from Melbourne. When the party Ends in the midnight They’ll all withdraw into Ghostly existences, some- Where as far away from The present as from This spot of being Like one of your whims Bubbling only to break Bio: Yuan Changming co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Writing credits include 16 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 3 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2129 other publications across 51 countries. A poetry judge for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022. His debut novel Detaching, 'silver romance' The Tuner and short story collection Flashbacks are all available at Amazon, his duology Edening due out in 2026.