Winter: LIV

Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton | Poetry

For the wedding guests
for the tinfoil that glitters on neighbors’ apartment floors

for the way cabbage so confidently sprouts
above the ox’s skull

for the wind’s film reel
the piano’s accompaniment

all winter I envy the moon
like I could pin the tail of the waves’ withdrawal there

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.