extinct: passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

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a vast column
the coils of a gigantic serpent
the third day no
dark or light
the sky’s skin raw

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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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