Yuan Changming​: 3 Poems

Creative Matrix

Life flows Like water Fiction rendered into fact
along

Consciousness evaporates Like steam Evil turned into good
above

Spirit crystallizes Like ice Ugly made beautiful
beyond

Lesson One in Chinese: the Character of Heart

思: thought takes place
Right in the field of heart

闷: depressed whenever your heart is
Shut behind a door

忍: tolerate with a knife
Straight above your heart

Briefly Noted

Tale about Two Species 
A.I. Robot (Cloud).
Fancy yourself being a quantum. 
What does a quantum do? 
It entangles with another quantum in a parallel universe of course. 
Why? 
Who knows why.

It keeps entangling, & entangling

Until like a dying star it’s sucked into a black hole, & 
All entanglements become detangled. 
Since then, consciousness has formed one interstellar cloud after another.
Where you are the same entangling quantum entangled...

Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) and BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.