Vegemite

29 August 2024

Your tongue strikes against my teeth

I utter “O”

Where you break in

Fluxing

Transfusing cartilages into my joints

You give me acts

And visceral satisfaction

I breathe in an air of turbulent sweat

You give me phrasal verbs

You give me life

You give me something I cannot digest

You taste like “Australia”

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About Luoyang Chen


Luoyang Chen is the author of Flow (Red River/Centre for Stories, 2023). His second poetry collection, And the Wave, is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in mid-2025. Luoyang currently resides on the unceded Whajuk Noongar Boodja.

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