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Last Leaf
by yuan changming
Still hanging up there alone
You’re the most popular
Reviewer of parading swirls
Smaller than a palm, you’re
Actually big enough to hold
The entire season
Withered like a weathered wish
You seal, for a new spring, every drop
Of freshness in the twig
about the author // yuan changming
| Yuan Changming (he/him) edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2089 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022, with his first (hybrid) novel Detaching due out in September. |
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