YL XUE
Dog Days
March 2025 Poetry
She is getting her education in history.
She stars in a theatrical production of a coup.
She wears a noh mask
engraves a contour
engraving her face.
In her off hours,
she studies life studies.
This is salute as speech, manners in diplomatic company.
This is painting yourself in, stanching a bleed,
brushing out cat piss,
my first experience of inescapable foulness.
She kept rubbing the same spot.
“I’ve rubbed it raw,” she said.
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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
01Bryony Dawson
FICTION
02Valentine Penrose,
trans.
Mia X. Pérez
POETRY (TRANSLATION)
03Elizabeth Atherton
FICTION
04Aloma Rodriguez
FICTION (TRANSLATION)
05Travis Smith
POETRY
06Serena Solin
POETRY
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