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Aug. 18th, 2005

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Found Poetry #99

99 (ccfinlay)
i followed the bike trail
back home. it was
crowded and filled
with the sounds of wheels
turning and running
shoes on blacktop.

a stretch of trail was
lined with queen anne's lace,
and black-eyed susans,
and chicory,
a long mixed fringe of
white and
yellow and
blue.

i've been dealing with a mild depression lately.
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Aug. 17th, 2005

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Found Poetry #98

98 (ccfinlay)
i took the path through the wetlands
to the river, where a
single canada goose walked
along the curve of the lowhead dam,
poking its head through the water.

the river is low now,
and the ripples between
stones and rushes
shimmered in the sun.

a fish jumped,
splashing in the shallows
just past the goose,
who never noticed.
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Aug. 16th, 2005

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Found Poetry #97

97 (ccfinlay)
old cemeteries are filled
with life:
big trees,
birds singing,
rabbits.

i almost stepped in a groundhog
hole while reading the gravestones,
and the flock of starlings
ignored me until i was in
their midst, then
flew off in one black rush.

the crabapples were shriveled,
wrecked by the heat,
but i saw, in the distance,
what looked like a fruit tree
growing up from
a grave.

i was eager to think
it was a peach tree.
they were buckeyes instead,
hanging heavy
in spiked shells
on dry branches.
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Jul. 30th, 2005

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77 (ccfinlay)
the fantasies include
an arthurian tale about
a young sir percival;
the story of a proprietor of
a lakeside guest house
who bests a vampire; and
a sort of condensed novel
in which three adventurers
steal into a forbidden city
to kill a transubstantiated evil sorcerer.

in the mainstream,
a cartoonist struggles
to come to terms
with his brilliant artist father's
incapacitating illness.

the science fiction runs
from predatory ufos and genetic engineering.
through colonists battling to survive
inside an asteroid out by jupiter;
an alternate history wherein
thomas jefferson is a rebel and traitor;
to a yarn about an old
soviet-style officer
aboard a starship in wartime
whose actions show him to be
both hero
and villain.

others concern an internet fact-finder
rendered unemployed and irrelevant
by artificial intelligence
and a planet whose repressed
populace consists entirely
of homosexuals
and hydrosexuals.

there's also a startling conceit
that consists entirely of
alarming,
amusing or
dramatic

footnotes,

obliging readers to concoct
their own explanations.

finlay displays
an astonishing range,
an active imagination
and a developing
assurance and control.

a writer to watch.


a review of wild things
kirkus july 15, 2005
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Jul. 17th, 2005

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Found Poetry #44

44 (ccfinlay)
call it
three pages,
though a lot of it
is notes and scene blocking.

fear
of the
mocking
inspired me.
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