Bio
Changming Yuan, 5-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in rural China and currently works as an English tutor in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan (Poetry subs welcome at editors.pp@gmail.com). Recently interviewed by PANK, Yuan has poetry appear in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and more than 700 others across 27 countries. poetrypacific.blogspot.ca http://www.facebook.com/poetry.pacific
Changming Yuan
Moving Sale
A whole box of human hearts, each
Still pulsing like a fresh-skinned toad
Two rows of shining skeletons of unknown gods
All with fingers longer than legs, skull-sized toes
Three sets of enchanted knives, possessed
By evil spirits (need sharpening)
Four giant alarm clocks, guaranteed
To wake the dead in a five-mile radius
Five wine bottles filled with pickled souls
As colourful as the rainbow over the Styx
How much for just the reddest heart?