Changming Yuan, author of Chansons of a Chinaman and twice Pushcart nominee, who grew up in rural China and published several books before moving to Canada, currently teachers writing in Vancouver and has had poetry appearing in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, London Magazine and over 270 other literary publications worldwide.

Yuan says: "Each time I try to walk closer with my wife or son on a rainy day, I have to close my own umbrella; this situation leads me to believe that in hard times, one (individual or country) has to yield something if people want to go through the difficulty together."

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On a Rainy Day

by Changming Yuan

I open, you
Close, or you
Open, I
Close, either my umbrella
Or yours
 
To keep ourselves
Dry from this cold
Rain, we have
To share
The one
And the same
umbrella, if we
Must walk
Hand in hand