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The Art of David Wiley

Farm Life

The trees are leafing

the blossoms are blooming

the frogs are croaking

the geese are honking

the roots are rooting

the fish are swimming

the hens are cackling

the rooster is crowing

the forest is sleeping

the spring is springing

the mushrooms are mushrooming

the cats are meowing

the dog is barking

the silence

is the silence of the cosmos,

and all is right

in a world

that never stops

to reflect on its own affairs

 

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Lissa Tyler Renaud

David Wiley painter-poet: graduate of U. Kansas; studied at Mexico City College and with artist Ignacio Belen in Barcelona. Widely traveled, he exhibits throughout California and abroad. Wiley has published two volumes of poetry: Designs for a Utopian Zoo (1992) and The Face of Creation (1996). Since 2005, Wiley has received large mural commissions in Arizona, Mexico and California. Wiley is a longtime contributor to Scene4: paintings, poems, meditations on art, creative non-fiction.
To inquire about his paintings, click here.
For more of his paintings, poetry and writings, check the Archives.

©2026 David Wiley
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