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I took off my nimbus,
laid it down on the carpet
and smiled in slant:
here you are,
this is my home,
I said,
as befits the weary traveller
but perhaps instead
I should have broken the orb in two
so that the grace that surrounds us
would begin to grow contours
like a blanket
over a hunchbacked child
Andreea Iulia Scridon is a poet and translator. She studied Comparative Literature at King’s College London and Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Scridon is contributing editor at E Ratio Poetry Journal and assistant fiction editor at Asymptote Journal. Her work has been published in World Literature Today, Oxford Review of Books, Oxford Poetry, Wild Court, andHarana Poetry, among other journals. She is the winner of the University of Oxford’s STAAR Editorial Prize. She has a poetry pamphlet forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books and a poetry book forthcoming with MadHat Press in 2022.