You will surely become A Zhuanzian butterfly Flying above the bushes Of memories; you’ll grow Into a towering redwood Witnessing how clouds Come & go with winds Just as you may prefer You will marry Li Lan & Live an immortal life Of ecstasy in love; you’ll Transform into a cyberborg With chips encoding All your pasts & presents & you will sooner or later (Only if you wish or not to) Get lost as a fragment broken off From a larger digital presence Where you will settle down Within a secret spirited pixel
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Poetry credits include 12 Pushcart nominations & 15 collections (most recently SINOSAUR) besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline, Poetry Daily and 1989 others, across 49 countries. Yuan served on the jury for Canada’s National Magazine Award. In 2022, Yuan began to write and publish fiction.
