a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society
None rooted in a human artifact
Into & out from it, you will refill all
Your innerbeing with the freshest air
Like a tree, you may never change
Your preordained position, your distance
From the nearest city. Nor can you
Add an extra ring around your heart
But you can share its shape & posture
Even its height in this moment, standing still
As if in deep meditation about the sunlight
About the bushes, as about the whole season
Yuan Changming grew up in a remote village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks (most recently East Idioms [cyberwit.net]), the 2018 Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize, Jodi Stutz Award in Poetry (2020), as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1689 other literary outlets across 45 countries.
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