Published in Overland Issue 251 Winter 2023 · Poetry Tired of feeling guilty, all the time Luoyang Chen the jumpers I lent never find their way back barely rehearsed, cold overwhelmed I wasn’t ready for the day has become tight trying to force open a poem the airtime in my mind: vilify, vilify, vilify can’t control clenching jaw Luoyang Chen Luoyang Chen was born and raised in a small town in Fujian, China, and currently resides on Wongatha Country. Luoyang is the author of a poetry collection, Flow (Red River, 2023), which is allegedly “very funny”. They are interested in the lyric “I”, 自然, “stasis in darkness”, language, positionality, and “O”. More by Luoyang Chen › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 6 September 20246 September 2024 · Poetry Debts of the robots Corey Wakeling Repaying the debts of robots, / I see me in your screen fatally, which is / to say oozed certainty across a whistle of craft. 16 August 202416 August 2024 · Poetry pork lullaby Panda Wong but an alive pig / roots in the soil /turning it over / with its snout / softening the ground / is this a hymn
