ESTATE
they’ve replaced the apricots
with apricot walls
now they’re painting the stairs
sixty years ago, every relic
was sixty years nearer to hand
the gold clocks on the ground floor
hunker down
in fifteen-minute intervals
though only the duct tape
ignored on the counter tells the time
I walk outside for fresh air
but even the oaks in rows
have inherited Doric and Ionic silhouettes
Author’s Bio
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Griffith Review, Magma Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review, Constellations, TAB, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Account, Raritan, and elsewhere.
