Hobble Creek Review
Replacing
Running short of bulbs
I planted some root words instead
Along the fence
Of my heart
All winter
They seemed dreaming under the frozen soil
When the last dews fly away
You will see certain three-colored tulips
Blooming aloud
Towards the early summer sun
Changming Yuan authored several books before emigrating from China
and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan's poems have
appeared in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, and
London Magazine as well as many other worldwide publications. His
collection Chansons of a Chinaman, and monograph, Politics and Poetics,
have both been recently released. Yuan has twice been nominated for the
Pushcart Prize.