[Realpoetik] SOPHIA DAHLIN

[RealPoetik Magazine]

SPAWN OF MYSELF




I am Sophia Nonesuch Paragon.

So it befell.

I go to sleep with bare arms on—

Am unbeleagured by the sun

(My windows sleep with curtains on)

I don’t expect a gun

Nor does the gun expect a Nonpareil.



No neighbour knows my fridge.

None ken my morning smell.

I take my tea with oxygen.



I take my bear with tarragon.

Nor fear the orphanage.

Born from a hexagon—

Doomed like a hermit to her shell—

I undilute the woods of hermitage.

I am Sophia Nonesuch Paragon;

of What, I Cannot Tell.



*Sophia Dahlin* is a poet who lives in Oakland. She has a chapbook, *Come On
*, and a website,www.mightierthans.wordpress.com. You can find her work in *
Vanitas* this spring and *Eleven Eleven* this summer.

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