Skylight on a Summer Night

Not really the rain

Tapping it aloud

Like sparrows’ beaks

But all the stars

From the outer space

Splashing down

Into a Bai Juyi’s

Plate for the dancing

Pearls that I am

Trying hard to catch

And embed within

This foreign stanza

Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2079 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.