Winter: LIII
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton | Poetry
On the moon I walk among fallow pastures
this concrete bunker’s a border
the longer I stay anywhere
the more quickly my thoughts migrate
away from me
at the empty ranch house
caution tape riots
the dog tracks are wilder than dogs
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton’s poems are published or forthcoming in Tin House, Gulf Coast, Vallum, Sugar House Review, Griffith Review, Lake Effect, Spillway, Magma Poetry, Sixth Finch, Poetry Salzburg Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review, TAB, The Account, Constellations, Tipton Poetry Journal, Raritan, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Nature of our Times print anthology, and other publications. His first book of translations, The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan, was published with Deep Vellum in 2023.