Desolate Palace
by Sinang Lee, Polytech High
Long Beach, CA
 
Night has fallen.
I’ll run to the desolate palace,
fleeing to the world’s end,
far end of the earth,
where my wings ride up
the twisted whirlwind,
to the soaring moon.
 
I will stand alone, serene above fate.
The sky and reluctant stars,
jewels in the hollow sky,
where the cliff breaks toward heaven.
 
Silence.
I breathe,
under the twilight,
in this some kind of place,
I am happy.

Volume 1 Issue 5 December 1996
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