yuan changming

Cage & Bird

I am a cage, in search of a bird. -- Kafka

Wherever my innerself flies, it’s still

Confined

Tightly to this world, this very cage of

Sensory & imaginative cells

Yes, I is the cage, while

The whole universe am a bird

First Lesson in the Chinese Character

思: thought takes place

In the field of heart

闷: depressed when your heart is

Shut behind a door

忍: tolerate with a knife

Right above your heart

Anagrammed Variations of the American Dream

A ram cairned me

In a crammed era [where]

Cameramen raid

A dire cameraman [or]

Arid cameramen

[Becoming]

A creamed airman [or]

A carmine dream

A minced ram ear

[a] maniac rearmed

As freedom turns into a dorm fee

Democracy to a car comedy, and

Human rights to harming huts