The wanton Boy that kills the Fly
Shall feel the Spiders enmity
— William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”
with no one to praise
your punctuality, you sleep in
the world lets you
go, scrawls a note
resumes its conference call
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Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton’s poems are published or forthcoming in Tin House, Vallum, Griffith Review, Gulf Coast, Sugar House Review, Lake Effect, Magma Poetry, Sixth Finch, Poetry Salzburg Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review, TAB, The Account, Constellations, Tipton Poetry Journal, Raritan, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and other publications.
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