Kaitlyn Wang is a high school senior from Saratoga, California. She is an editor for Soundings, her school’s art and literary magazine, and a reader for Polyphony Lit. Her work has been recognized by YoungArts and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Also by Kaitlyn Wang: Memory, 1998


Kaitlyn Wang

Silence Said




after “No Light, No Light” by Florence + the Machine Start over — get it right tonight. Say it to a crowd out loud (tell me want me leave me need me). I told you: blue never knew plain need, but violent fear stays. I told you, my love: your eyes just can’t say no.




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