{"id":1298,"date":"2019-06-23T01:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:21:10","slug":"my-crows-by-yuan-changming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/06\/23\/my-crows-by-yuan-changming\/","title":{"rendered":"My Crows by Yuan Changming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include Pushcart nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry and BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>My Crows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> 1\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, still hidden <br>Behind old shirts and pants<br>Like an inflated sock <br>Hung on a slanting coat hanger <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a prophecy stuck in its throat<br>Probably too dark or ominous <br>To yaw, even to breathe <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one knows when or how<br>It will fly out of the closet, and call<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like billions of dark butterflies <br>Beating their wings <br>Against nightmares, rather<br>Like myriads of <br>Spirited coal-flakes <br>Spread from the sky <br>Of another world<br>A heavy black snow <br>Falls, falling, fallen <br>Down towards the horizon <br>Of my mind, where a little crow<br>White as a lost patch<br>Of autumn fog<br>Is trying to fly, flapping  <br>From bough to bough <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include Pushcart nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry and BestNewPoemsOnline, among others. My Crows 1\/ Still, still hidden Behind old shirts and pantsLike an inflated sock Hung on a slanting coat hanger With a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/06\/23\/my-crows-by-yuan-changming\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-kW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}