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