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published November 2009

Changming Yuan grew up in rural China, authored several books before moving to Canada, and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan's poems (are to) appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry (2009), The Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, The London Magazine and nearly 200 other literary publications worldwide; his first full length collection, Chansons of a Chinaman, has recently been released by Leaf Garden Press.

Dialectical Dialogue

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the bell rings aloud
though no wind is blowing

the bird flies afar
though it remains still

the sky is filled up
though there are no stars or clouds

the sound is heard
though it lacks a voice

no human is com­ing
though roads are everywhere

noth­ing is dis­ap­pear­ing
into this present absence