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Homescaping by Yuan Changming

  • Writer: Dust
    Dust
  • Jun 23, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 13, 2021


Homescaping


Having nothing better to do, I kill

Time by looking at a traditional

Chinese painting on my iPad


Much enlarged, it appears like

A plain sheet of rice paper

Smeared with ink. I view it


In the presence of bonsai; I

Drop several thick strokes to the floor

Of history, leaving a few fine lines


Behind the sofa, & failing

To catch a colorless corner

Between black and white


It is a landscape newly relocated

Into my heart’s backyard. Then I sit

On my legs, meditating about


No light in the picture, no

      Shadow of anything, no perspective

As in hell. Isn’t this the art of seeing?




Yuan Changming



Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Jodi Stutz Award in Poetry (2020) & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others across 45 countries.

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