Morphology in the Dark by Juheon Rhee

I think the sky is beautiful at night. I live in the city so there are no stars. 

The moonlight burns the white clouds

black. 

When it is summer, I will open the window and stare 

at the buildings closing in, divided 

by the pillars of my balcony.

Here I’ll think the world is dead

and no one is watching me. 

But it has taken someone and replaced them with another.

But it has seen what my mother keeps only to herself,

And my sister’s sleepless nights. 

What I have never seen—

when the wind gallops into my room,

And lays its shapeless hooves onto the floor,

It will lose its body

and remind me:

That even its breath,

The dying sigh,

The token of its collapsing self—

has been born out of such that is nothing.

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Juheon (Julie) Rhee is a 15-year-old student and is currently attending International School Manila. During her free time, she enjoys reading Agatha Christie’s mysteries and hanging out with her friends. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in K’in Literary Journal, Indolent Books, 580 Split, Lunch Ticket, Cleaver Magazine among others, and has been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs.