Fragmentising: Another Free-Sonnet





Fragmentising: Another Free-Sonnet 






To be               [a matter when there’s no question

Or not to be    [a question when nothing really matters



To sing            with a frog squatting straight

On a lotus leaf in the Honghu Lake            near Jingzhou



    To recollect            all the pasts, & mix them

Together like a glass of         cocktail



To build                      a nest of meaning

Between two broken branches on   Ygdrasil



To strive         for deity

Longevity       &

Even happiness



To come          on & off line every     other while



To compress consciousness into a file,    & upload it

    Onto a nanochip. To be    daying, to                   die







Yuan Changming







Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving his native country. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include eight chapbooks, ten Pushcart nominations, & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1,609 others across 44 countries.   

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