On these stony steps,
I took my first tokes
while motors moved
the Avenue.
Even the berries
can’t take us back
to where we were
inside
those blinds
outside
these one-way
windows.
Frank William Finney is an internationally-published poet from Massachusetts. He is the author of The Folding of the Wings (FLP Books, 2023) and other collections. A Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry (May-June 2023), his poems have appeared in Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, Odessa Magazine, Slipstream, and other publications.
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