What Trains May Come
Our forbears
laid the spikes themselves—
Hence the dog tracks
on the rails
and madmen dreaming
mushroom clouds
on pillows steeped
in blood.
Frank William Finney is the author of The Folding of the Wings (Finishing Line Press). His poems can be found in Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Pocket Fiction, The Metaworker, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he worked as a lecturer (Literature) at Thammasat University in Thailand from 1995 until 2020.