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Selected Poems 1966-1999
Available as a free downloadable book at http://mfinley.com/poems/edocs/looking-for-china.pdf

Excerpt:
HAPPINESS

When someone is next to the person she loves,
the water in her cells laps at its thousands
of beaches, pebbles and rock
and sharp discs of light
breathe from the pores of her cheeks.
A whirlpool springs from a cloud to the west,
by an island egg in a happy sea.
A sparrow hawk flies off toward
a bank of violet mountains.
It lights on a limb of a tall green tree,
the stars alight in her branches.

"In no one else's poems, except Vallejo's, do I sense such desite straining at the limits of words."
Michael Cuddihy, editor, IRONWOOD

Author, Chronicler, Diarist, Essayist, Humorist, Journalist, Novelist, Other Media Arts, Performing Artist, Poet, Publisher, Satirist, Storyteller, Writer

http://mfinley.com/poems/edocs/looking-for-china.pdf 

Zombie Girl
You
Truth Never Frightens
Downriver
Mending Tree
Take Me Out of the Ball Game
Oddfathers
The Mountain with Low Self-Esteem
Recent Poems
The Offset Revolution
Empty Places: Remembering Paul Gruchow
University Avenue
Celebrity Brain Tumors
DOG as a Metaphor for the Soul
Gise Pedersen Sets Me Straight on a Matter of Natural History
A Theology of Brain Tumors
Yukon Gold: Poemes de Terre
The Clarinet Is a Difficult Instrument
Truth Never Frightens
My Darling Serpentine
Cartes Postales
The New Yorker
In the Night
The Eyed Eclair
Curtis Hotel Farewell
Work Songs
Lascaux
Fools Unlimited
LOOKING FOR CHINA
Triangles Prisms Cones
When We Are Gone
Midnight at the Mounds
Desalinization
Shampoo
A Theology of Brain Tumors
The Weather
Curbside
To The Soul Every Day Is the Sabbath
Your Human Being