YUYI CHEN

#1

a truth fall
speaking vulgar

spitting my metro
politan eye saw

a chink chomp
ing the nuts fall

ing cheap airline
gentle parent

ing a loud plane
by the road where

your mom died
because of you

#2

I plead a mountain
Wakes without the help
From phone alarm
Feast on my ankle; modern
Technology! Each day I am
Closer to an icy bone
At mountain top.

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, Nat. Brut, HOT PINK MAG, and Pile Press. Their first chapbook Erotic Continent is forthcoming in 2025 from Discount Guillotine. They go by Echo.