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.
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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
01Falling
Bryony Dawson
FICTION
02Goa I
Goa II
Valentine Penrose,
trans.
Mia X. Pérez
POETRY (TRANSLATION)
03The Semiosis of Real Presence
Elizabeth Atherton
FICTION
04 A Day Off
Aloma Rodriguez
FICTION (TRANSLATION)
05Drowned Song
At Field-in-the-Eye
Travis Smith
POETRY
06from Notes on Self Reliance: A Poem for Two Voices
Serena Solin
POETRY
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