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 […]
Clara Changxin Fang
Clara Changxin Fang: Don’t Go Away
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 […]
Clara Changxin Fang: Lost Colony
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 […]
Clara Changxin Fang
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 […]