YL XUE


Boundary Conditions



March 2025  Poetry




I hate denying her anything. 

In the motes of the afternoon
the ranch house the locus of the 
Courtyard. 

The barycentric center is the point
at which the plane surface becomes
its integral average. 

When with two fingers she picks up the 
handkerchief. 

The point
is the singular point of insertion.

Ideas are distinguished from impressions by vivacity. 

This single indentation 
above her upper lip: 
it never moves, even with effort. 

The rooster taps at her with his beak. 

This cock shaking towards her, defending 
its territory. 






YL Xue lives in Brooklyn with his dog Poopy Xue. He's been previously published in Fence, Jubilat, Keith LLC, and others, and is working on a dissertation chapter on the politics of psychoanalytic ego psychology in the study of 'coping'.


ISSUE N˚2


01

Falling

Briony Dawson

 FICTION

02

Goa I
Goa II

Valentine Penrose,
trans. Mia X. Pérez

POETRY (TRANSLATION)

03

The Semiosis of Real Presence

Elizabeth Atherton

FICTION

04

A Day Off

Aloma Rodriguez

FICTION (TRANSLATION)

05

Drowned Song
At Field-in-the-Eye

Travis White

 POETRY






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