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.