Yuan Changming
Spring Stream
With all the transparent secrets
Of the last ice age
(Or beyond the atmosphere)
You keep flowing
Towards the sea
Leaving all wildness behind
Along your two vast banks.
Yuan Changming, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of 5 chapbooks, grew up in rural China, became an ESL student at 19, and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009,12,14), BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1089 others across 37 countries.
Spring Stream
With all the transparent secrets
Of the last ice age
(Or beyond the atmosphere)
You keep flowing
Towards the sea
Leaving all wildness behind
Along your two vast banks.
Yuan Changming, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of 5 chapbooks, grew up in rural China, became an ESL student at 19, and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009,12,14), BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1089 others across 37 countries.