Bees die while charging towards light
Flies survive by fleeing into darkness
What, what
If the empty bottle rotates?
Changming Yuan
Changming Yuan, two-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009), grew up in rural China, lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has published poetry in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, London Magazine, and others.
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This is perfect. To me, it incorporates everything that a short poem should. It doesn’t feel rushed or condensed… it feels as if it is exactly the length it should be.
The dichotomy of life and death isn’t really a dichotomy at all.
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This is perfect. To me, it incorporates everything that a short poem should. It doesn’t feel rushed or condensed… it feels as if it is exactly the length it should be.
The dichotomy of life and death isn’t really a dichotomy at all.