Here is a big sun
that burns in
nothing but silence.
One day, in a pile
of days, it
calls out, killing us.
Everything touched by
passion dies.
No love, no light. This.
—
王潇/Evan Wang was the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The Journal, Waxwing, and elsewhere, and has been featured at and recognized by the White House, Button Poetry, NPR, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and more. He is a National YoungArts Winner, a Scholastic National Gold Medalist, and a commended Foyle Young Poet of the Year.
