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Clara Changxin Fang

Clara Changxin Fang: The Other Side of Night

October 24, 2016 by PBQ

The Buddhist monk instructs us to pay attention to our breathing but all I can think of is the way you touched me before I left for Utah, like oil splattered on the wrist, like snow falling on bare shoulders. For the next two years the great bowl of the Salt Lake valley was cleft […]

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Clara Changxin Fang: Don’t Go Away

October 24, 2016 by PBQ

The night shakes its wings and the sky hasn’t folded its whitewashed lawn chairs. Hyacinths in the garden gleam like pale fire, the forests are crammed with shadowy fish. I heard you say: I don’t know when I’m coming back. Once, I lost my car in a strange city while we circled the streets searching […]

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Poetry, Poetry 94 Tagged With: Clara Changxin Fang, Contributors 94, Poetry, Poetry 94

Clara Changxin Fang: Lost Colony

October 24, 2016 by PBQ

Settled in the Spring of 1584, Roanoke was the first English colony in North America. We built two story houses with stone walls on dry mud, the island a crumbling sandbar pummeled by wind and waves. We erected fences and fence posts, laid claim to a patch of wilderness like Ptolemy mapping the heavens, giving […]

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Clara Changxin Fang

October 24, 2016 by PBQ

Clara Changxin Fang immigrated to the United States from China when she was 9 years old. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Utah and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale. Her poems have been published in Poet Lore, Nimrod, Tupelo Quarterly, Verse Daily, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She […]

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