Sophia Dahlin
Appear of Bodice Your form is loitering among the trees You take the time you want to leave to anything Your form is loitering These downtown Oakland streets I like These open nights like oceans or Olympic oceans The open mattress feeling on the floor I take the place I can't take time The sun is buoyed by its sentences The book is nebulous with real fog but the fog is generative it forms Your form is loitering among the trees You are the olives grey and green You are the wine drunk wine that dries the tongue above wine's head the sky's birds masticate what clouds are throaty closure of I say, your form is loitering among the trees it melts the space that ought be cut between That's not a silhouette That's a form I can't get to leave the forest
Sophia Dahlin is a poet in the East Bay of San Francisco, where she teaches generative poetry workshops, edits Eyelet Press with Jacob Kahn, and organizes poetry readings with Violet Spurlock and others. Her first book, Natch, came out with City Lights in 2020, and her second collection is forthcoming fall 2025. More work can be found at sophiadahlin.com