New Poetry by Changming Yuan

Confrontations (2): Plum Blossom

Without a single leaf

Green or yellow

To support it as a foil

But on a skeletal twig

Glazed with dark elegies

A bud is blooming, bold and blatant

Like a big drop of blood

As if to challenge, to warm up

The entire season

When whims and wishes

Are all frozen like the landscape

- Changming Yuan 2012

Changming Yuan, 4-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman, grew up in a remote Chinese village and published several monographs before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan teaches independently in Vancouver and has poetry appear in nearly 470 literary publications across 19 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Salzburg, SAND and Taj Mahal Review.