DARE
Pwu Jean Lee
Dare the spiral storm
The sailboats raced
To the eye of the typhoon.
Dare to trust one’s own feelings,
The blue monsters or pink angels
Whose name I used to know.
Dare the icebergs of denial,
For enthusiasm
Entombed in the core.
Dare to desire
The definition
Of the Black Hole.
Pwu Jean Lee is the author of the book of poems, East Wind, West Rain. Proficient in both English and Chinese, she has won various writing competitions in both languages. Since 2002, her verses ‘A Female Son' excerpted from this book were etched on the marble wall of the PENN STATION in Manhattan, New York City. The exhibition along with poems by Walt Whitman and eleven other American Poets is for permanent display.