After winging his way
above the flags
and factories,

he landed among
the sheep and goats,

only to find they’d sown
their wild oats

in a makeshift mountain
made of mole hills.

 

Frank William Finney taught English Literature at Thammasat University in Thailand for 25 years. He is currently growing old and ornery in his native New England. His poems have appeared in Black Works: The Dark Literature, Silent Auctions, Variant Literature, among others. He has work forthcoming in Constellations, LAMP Anthology Volume 1, and Stardust Review.