Fall 2013, Volume 15

Poetry by Changming Yuan

Tender is the Night

at the darkest moment
a tulip bloomed alone
at the front yard of
my poem, in the shape
of blood-stained throat

for no reason, it then
began to smile
with all its tenderness
behind the budding lyrics
of early april

this is perhaps why
night has become
even tenderer
since keats's time

Information Age

far beyond the dark mountains
deep in the virgin rain forest
there is not a single human being
not even a sheltered animal
except piranhas, sun bears

and an email message recently caught
on the web of a shiny spider...

 

 

 

BIO: Changming Yuan, 5-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in rural China but currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan. With a PhD in English, Yuan has recently been interviewed by [PANK], and had poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009; 12), BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 739 other literary journals/anthologies across 28 countries.