Three Worlds
Their World · Bless You · Still Life
Poems of the threshold.
- Collection
- Three Worlds (三个世界)
- Author
- Dai Pan 潘岱 (also: Pan Dai)
- Written
- 2024 — 2026
- Edition
- 2025 first edition; ongoing through 2026
- Version
- 1.2 (2026 update)
- Language
- English
- License
- All rights reserved
- Contact
- daipan.art
Volumes
- I Their World
- II Bless You
- III Still Life
Cite this collection
Dai Pan. Three Worlds. daipan.ink, 2025–. https://daipan.ink/collection
For individual poems: Dai Pan, "Title," Three Worlds, Volume, poem 00, year written. daipan.ink. URL.
Editorial frame
The three volumes are three positions of the observing self — not geographies. They are porous; the speaker moves between them the way memory actually moves: by return, by angle, by failing to arrive.
This is an ongoing digital edition, written and updated between 2024 and 2026.
Note
Three Worlds is a collection of 79 poems written between 2024 and 2026, organized into three volumes.
Their World — the world one is asked to enter, and the conditions of that asking.
Bless You — the second person, into which love and belief and grief collapse.
Still Life — the things that remain when both have grown quiet.
The three are porous. The speaker moves between them the way memory actually moves: by return, by angle, by failing to arrive.
These are poems of the threshold. They are written from the edges of scenes — windows, tables, train walls, mirrors, the cold skin of a thermos — by a speaker who has learned to stand just short of entry. Arrival is not the subject. Standing close to arrival, and watching oneself stand, is the subject.
The poems are written in English as a displaced grammar: image-first, color-led, asymmetrical when accuracy requires it.
Ongoing digital edition.
All poems collected in Three Worlds are the original work of Dai Pan (潘岱) and are protected under copyright. No part of this collection may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of the author. This digital collection is maintained as an ongoing edition. For permissions and inquiries, visit daipan.art.