Another night
A night as such:
When the jasmine fell
There is a needle in the koi pond
Sick at home
Nap destroys eyes & sights half burn The fever
cedes the door & arm half burn The palm bears
illness. Meals fermented & half burn the news
remote. Raw the other half unburn tender
drool on desk. Carve of bore pressed eyes
through a scary scary scary hole on the door.
My secret your ears to mine; my father your
stranger to mine; half burn the city in a night-
een eighty nine my treading yours. Don’t provoke
the sly impotent. Be polite be polite.
Yuyi Chen is from Sichuan, China. First coming to the US in 2017, they are now in a PhD program in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Their work can be found or forthcoming in antiphony, mercury firs, HOT PINK MAG, and Pile Press. Their first chapbook Erotic Continent is out now from Discount Guillotine. They go by Echo.