the waves surging towards the seashore
not unlike my spirits
the seashore embracing the waves
not unlike your arms
a whale seems trying to jump above the water
like what is not supposed to be unlike
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Changming Yuan grew up in rural China, and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan’s poems appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry (2009), Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine and nearly 200 other literary publications worldwide; his first collection Chansons of a Chinaman was recently released by Leaf Garden Press.
tongues of the ocean 
tongues of the ocean issue 4 goes live « Scavella’s Blogsphere
[…] entry art by Steve Cartwright, and beginning the issue with two very cool and contrasting poems: “In the Bay” by Changming Yuan (China, USA), and “12 Notes for a Light Song of Light” by Kei Miller (Jamaica, […]