No two trees share
The same shape; each
Keeps trying hard to
Restore its unique
Figure. That’s growing
Out of a trunk, similar
Almost exactly
As thick as all the
Branches combined
This is the secrete of nature
About the beautiful
About the sublime
Natural Ironies (1)
1/ Snagging
You have long since died
But you will never fall
Standing deadly among leafy growths
Your body embodies a rebirth
Greening close to your rotten cycles
2/ Moonbow
Few humans look up
At you, but you reflect
And refract just as many colors
As much beauty as a sunbow
With little warmth of the day
But countless secrets about darkness
3/ Whale
You hope to make a loud last call that
Reaches
Far beyond yourself, on yourself, yourself reachable; an
Agitated
Vociferous spirit in the Pacific, cruising
Under night currents, yelling
As if for an echo, but too loud to be heard
By the un-whale like
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Eddying
Among the mixtures of
Seven primary colors, the painting
Gives rise to a swirl
Turning fast enough
To send you up to a little cloud
Like the Zhuangzian Peng gliding through
The serenity of autumn sky
Neither the bird nor you cast
Any shadow down as the earth
Keeps rotating as leisurely
As any other day beyond the black hole
When you return and stand on a
Hilltop, the painting is still
Unfolding itself, but the bird has
Vanished high up into another universe
Bamboo nature premium baby diapers [from an aunt
The daughter is the art of freedom
Love to dream swaddle UP lite [from an uncle
Every princess is a girl, but not every queen
My Best frind pillow from [Uncle Sam
To be or not to be a single flower
Grey dahlia nursing cover [from Grandparents
If you want a woman, have something done
Dr. Brown’s bottle warmer [from Aunt Angel
Women, thy name is frailty
Tammee tippee electric steam sterilizer [from Uncle Chase
Only women are easy to get along with, Confucius hoped
Stork craft custom hoop glider and ottoman [from Grandpa Michael
One of the two running rabbits must be female, according to Mulan
Infant optics dxr-8 video baby monitor [from Grandma Helen
Flowers, why not bloom all together right now? asked Empress Wu
Ju-ju-be b.f.f.convertible diaper bag [from uncle Allen, etc., etc.
A baby shower not for a basic bitch, but for blahblahblah, blahblah
* Our first grandchild Kate is expected to come to this world on november 11, 2016.
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Changming Yuan, 9-time Pushcart nominee and author of 7 chapbooks, grew up in a remote village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age 19, and published monographs on translation before moving out of China. Currently, Changming edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009,12,14), BestNewPoemsOnline, Cincinnati Review, Poetry in Voice, Threepenny Review and 1239 others. Recently Yuan has a poem nominated for the first time for the Best of the Net (2016) .
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