Last Meet with My First Love: for Yi Ming
meeting you face to face
you seem to hide yourself
behind a fog in another world
separated by the pacific in between
you often look like the flower
blooming on my window ledge
have a blue dream
and you will see a little cloud
drifting around like me
near that borderline
I have packed you up tightly
into my backpack, the luggage
I cannot consign, or sent by mail
but carry it with me
close to my chest
you are neither light
nor heavy, but you will
occupy a solid space
in the closet of my heart
Yuan Changming, with Allen Yuan, runs poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. (poetry subs are welcome year round). Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1,869 others worldwide. Recently, Yuan published his eleventh chapbook Limerence, and served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).
meeting you face to face
you seem to hide yourself
behind a fog in another world
separated by the pacific in between
you often look like the flower
blooming on my window ledge
have a blue dream
and you will see a little cloud
drifting around like me
near that borderline
I have packed you up tightly
into my backpack, the luggage
I cannot consign, or sent by mail
but carry it with me
close to my chest
you are neither light
nor heavy, but you will
occupy a solid space
in the closet of my heart
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