Luoyang Chen is a Chinese poet working and living in Australia. His first poetry collection, Flow, was published by Centre for Stories/Red River Press in 2023. Their second collection, And the Waves, will be published with Puncher and Wattmann in 2025.
Sex and Power Desire Maybe
befriends a fellow sea persecution in a vast geometry of desire awakening destruction safely
satisfying this moment an intimacy to an alternative construction you powerful and damaging
you compulsive leech a mirror that maps sexual anxiety I am discovering temperature
displacement tormented ever after or during or before it even begins. Invest in productivity
good life blocking this emotion this one day I’ll return to Melbourne fuck me my secondary
mental health my proximity sex managing an entire body. De-flux re-flux. Diagnose the flood
innocence maybe GoFundMe and travel in Italy maybe have sex and power desire maybe.