Birds in a Boneyard presents twenty-one poems that navigate the shadowed corners of memory and mortality with unflinching honesty. Frank William Finney draws readers into landscapes where ravens perch on tombstones, abandoned chicken coops dot wooded hillsides, and the natural world bears witness to human frailty. These verses move between intimate domestic moments—morning coffee, autumn leaf-raking, feeding backyard hens—and darker territories of loss, disappointment, and the relentless passage of time. With a gothic sensibility that finds beauty in decay and meaning in transience, Finney's poetry invites readers to discover their own reflections in his contemplations of what remains when the familiar world shifts and fades around us.
