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by Changming Yuan 
Among more than 4,600 kinds of spiders We belong to the one that knits a single web Throughout its lifetime, throwing out all Its silk, not to catch flies or insects, but To contribute to the making of our shroud 
Yuan Changming grew up in a remote village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen and published monographs on translation before leaving China. Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. His first novel Bamakoola: Paradise Regained is due out in 2024. |