Bootless

Frank William Finney

Why do I wallow
in the mud

to watch the cranes
swing in the sun

with the rainy season
in retreat

the jasmine blooming
a foot from my feet

and the withered roses
molting dust?

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Frank William Finney

Frank William Finney is an award-winning poet from Massachusetts who taught literature in Thailand for 25 years.  His poems have appeared in Bitter Melon Review, The Frogmore Papers, The Penmen Review, Seventh Quarry Press, Viridine Literary, and elsewhere. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings was published in 2022.