I danced an hour with Discontent
She turned around me a hundred times
But made me none the happier
For all the sweet smiles on her face
I danced a minute with Content
And ne’er a single move made she
But oh, all the blessings I can gain
Even when she looks sullen
Changming Yuan, two-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Politics and Poetics (2009), who grew up in rural China and published several books before moving to Canada, currently works as a tutor in Vancouver and has had poetry appearing in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine and 270 other literary publications worldwide.