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The Present Interior

Posted by Yuan Changming | Jun 2, 2024 | Poetry | 0 |

The Present Interior

For now let’s forget all troubles & miseries
In this world of red dust, forsake our family & 
Friends alike, forgive each & every other’s debts

& wrongdoings as well as our own sins; for now
Let’s not get stuck to our pasts or try squeezing 
Into our futures, foreseeable or otherwise

Where we may easily become too lost in 
Character as in imagination; for now, just 
Let it be, including everything & everybody

While the little cloud above the horizon drifts
Along, & the tiny fish keeps bubbling on & off
In the creek; for now let’s stop & separate

Our selfhoods from our minds, observe how 
They are making whims & wishes, & watch
How they become conditioned by concepts &

Constructs; for now let’s stay put as the hand-
Written book of history is being torn off 
Page by page, until we find our innermost

Being in the heart of our soul at a crowded
Corner; & let’s take off our masks, identities
Even consciousnesses as if we were peeling off

An onion, though we may find nothing for now

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Yuan Changming

Yuan Changming

Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2089 other literary outlets worldwide. A poetry judge for Canada's 2021 National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.

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