Brush Made from Baby Wolf Hair
This is a traditional Chinese pen, an artifact Combining a wolf’s wildness with a baby’s Innocence. It is soft but strong enough to Write dark history in rice fields, or draw Black pictures on ricepaper. All in black And white. Unlike the feather from a swan That can fly up from an alphabetic epic Yes, it is a colourless feeling the painter Or the writer gets, from his inky strokes Yuan Changming Yuan Changming, nine-time Pushcart and two-time Best of the Net nominee, published monographs on translation before moving out of China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include seven chapbooks (including Dark Phantasms [2017]), Best of the Best Canadian Poetry: 10th Anniv. Ed., BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1319 across 40 countries.
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The Ekphrastic Review
December 2019
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