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The nursery rhyme jumps from my aging chest
Eager to embrace the changing world with zest
Hello, young trees! Hello, summer’s sunshine!
How are you all doing along this humble line?
I will resume my old childhood dream
I will try this new feature like ice cream
I will return to my long lost native place
On this planet’s other side to find the face
& confess to her as the apple of my eye
Pretending I can restart my life, can’t I?
The cosmos is expanding
Black holes sucking
Old stars sparkling
New stars being born
Manmade satellites moving around the earth
Earth rotating & revolving
Clouds colliding
E.signals shooting
The swishing of traffic on Granville Street
Sawing at the house construction site nearby
Power-washing
Mowing
Talking to a fellow human
Tick-tacking of the clock
Buzzing of the fridge
Computer fanning while in the present moment
My heart is beating, as silence presents itself as
A vast stage, where noises enter & exit one after another
As if to leave my protobeing alone, all in a hurry
怒: anger influxes when slavery
Rises from above the heart
愁: worry thickens as autumn
Sits high on your heart
闷: depressed whenever your heart is
Shut behind a door
意: meaning is defined as
A sound over the heart
思: thought takes place
In the field of heart
忘: forgetting happens
When there’s death on heart
忍: to tolerate is to bear a knife
Right above your heart
It is an undeniable fact now:
They have arisen from the bare ground
Like the phoenix flapping its wings out of its
Legendary ashes, where are they going?
Nowhere but high up into a virtual space, a world
That, like history book, is full of black headlines
Big names, & bold details. All transmitted
Into digital forms. Even the most unidentifiable
Has become a star above its dark caws.
Each
Taken for an angel winged with the rainbows
Of tomorrow, while all cranes and swans are lost
In their dances to the tune of death
Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving his native country. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.