Motivation
Does not need
A motivation
Like you do
Its motivation, if any
Is to be an action
That’s that
… Needs a Smile
So it invented flowers
To bloom in every season, and
Rivers to irrigate the dry fields
Beyond the barren banks
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Yuan Changming, nine-time Pushcart and one-time Best of Net nominee, published monographs on translation before moving out of China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include Best Canadian Poetry, Cincinnati Review, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1289 others across 39 countries.