A Tryst in Winter
We cracked the ice
when we crossed Heart Pond
while the trees turned white
on the churchyard hill.
And the fire we set there
burns to this day—
Wherever I go.
No matter what the season.
Frank William Finney is a Boston-based poet who taught at Thammasat University in Thailand from 1995 to 2020. Some of his recent work can be found in The Plentitudes, Slipstream Magazine, Stone Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
