Lawn Lords
Frank William Finney
stand proud
in their gardens
and grounds:
Custodians
of hose & soil
& mulch & seeds,
their sprinklers
bless both grass
and weeds,
and sometimes
wet their flower
beds.
Frank William Finney is a poet from Massachusetts who taught literature in Thailand for 25 years. A joint winner of the Letter Review Prize for Poetry, his poems can be found in BarBar, Blue Unicorn, Door is a Jar, Slipstream, and elsewhere. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings was published in 2022 (FLP Books).Â