Miracle Issue 6
The Scene -Chingmang Yuan
THE MUSIC
What a wonder drama, where The actors and actresses are both Audiences, when the audiences are Either actors or actresses, except perhaps me And me alone, who is Neither an actor Nor an audience
ISSUE
Like Father, like Sun
Changming Yuan, 4-time Pushcart nominee and author of Allen Qing Yuan, holds a PhD in English, teaches independently, and edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver (Poetry submissions welcome at yuans@shaw.ca). Yuan's poetry appears in 689 literary publications across 25 countries, including Asian Literary Review, Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry (2009, 2012), BestNewPoemsOnline, LiNQ, London Magazine and Threepenny Review.
Crow Up Call -Allen Qing Yuan “Caw!” beckoned the crow “Aw!” shrieked the baby boy the courier of omens flashed warnings, like a shrouded light house, but did the beacon burn brightly enough? Before the boy slipped through the grasps of the call, the crow informed him “Childhood is but the infancy of life” “Aw!” replied the infant the crow silently soared away, the boy not yet ready to “caw
Allen Qing Yuan, born in Canada and aged 17, currently attends high school and edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver. Since grade 10, Allen's poetry has appeared in more than 50 literary publications across 13 countries, including Blue Fifth Review, Contemporary American Voices, Cordite Poetry Review, In Other Words, Istanbul Literary Review, Literary Review of Canada, Mobius, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Scotland, Spillway, Taj Mahal Review, Toronto Quarterly and Two Thirds North. Poetry submissions welcome atyuans@shaw.ca.
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