à la carte

q&a

photography

graphic fiction

nonfiction

poetry

fiction

  • Join Our Mailing List



  • The Literary Review of the Quebec Writers' Federation
Share |

poetry

Crow/Snow: A Winter Vision

Changming Yuan

Crow/Snow: A Winter Vision

Like billions of dark butterflies
Beating their wings
Against nightmares, rather
Like myriads of
Spirited coal-flakes
Spread from the sky
Of another world
A heavy black snow
Falls, falling, fallen
Down towards the horizon
Of my mind, where a little crow
White as a lost patch
Of autumn fog
Is trying to fly, flapping
From bough to bough

Changming Yuan is a four-time Pushcart nominee and co-author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Three Poets (2011). He grew up in rural China and published several monographs before moving to Canada. His poetry has appearred in nearly 450 literary publications across 18 countries including: Asia Literary R, Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, CanLit, Descant, London Mag, LRC, Matrix, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Salzburg, Queen's Qtrly, and Vallum.