extinct: greater ʻamakihi (Viridonia sagittirostris)

the field we abandoned
a green blade
a sickle in their mouths
the sharp sweet, the clean
sown ground

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Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton’s poems are published or forthcoming in Tin House, Gulf Coast, Vallum, Sugar House Review, Griffith 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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