Getting Ready to Confess by Yuan Changming

With a storm
With a gull
With your breath
Goes the thought 
With a vague vision
Beyond the bogland
With your heart
Hawking aloud in the wild
With dripping blood
An unformed concept
A shoal of consciousness 
Bubbling with feeling
With a photon 
With a quantum
With your mind concentrated
On a twisted other

About the Poet:

Yuan Changming  published monographs on translation before leaving his native country. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks  & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & Best New Poems Online, among 1,619 others across 43 countries.