Bio
Lara Frankena is a Midwesterner by birth and a Londoner by chance. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Free State Review, Unbroken and Midwestern Gothic.
Lara Frankena
Michigan Summer
I pull back the curtainsto see what might appear
in my parents' suburban backyard:
a troupe of deer on kindling legs
a single chipmunk that is everywhere at once
a rabbit in the shadow of the pines
my naked children, dancing in the sprinklers
my fatherremonstrating