winter XXXXVII
by Nathaniel Dolton–Thornton
AETHER /OAR
winter XXXXVII
the church doors were scaffolded so long
no one noticed the difference when they opened
the cattle graze island grasses now
in their usual mainland pastures
sandbars are sanctuaries outside river work
like high school history terms —
the Fertile Crescent, the Tigris and Euphrates —
to the deli clerk, heating paninis