Lara Frankena

Birds of M-43

turkey vultures spiral

above one-room school

turned liquor store

geese cluster

under their For Sale sign

unwitting self-promoters

a pair of sandhill cranes

poses on gravel shoulder

elegant, rusty flamingos

in our car’s wake

the roadkill’s white wing

is a raised flag

Lara Frankena is a Midwesterner by birth and a Londoner by chance. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Free State Review, Shot Glass Journal, and Literary Mama.