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 Nature Girl

Painting

The Art of David Wiley

 Poetry

Art and Poetry Selection:
Lissa Tyler Renaud


Reading Gabriel Marcel
On My Seventy-Fourth Birthday

If I reflect upon the facets

      of the cosmos we call life

upon the microcosm and the macrocosm

      and the spaces in between

      where we explore

      those unknown shadowed porticos

      hiding falsehoods made of truth

and the grasp of being

      is almost in the grasp of being

      but never quite

as if to say

      that once we have portrayed ourselves

      as something more than the sun

      glittering on the surface of the water

then we have made a choice

      to be what we may not be

within this hall of mirrors

      that speaks to us in colors

and makes a kind of music

      we are not yet able to hear.

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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 fiction and non-fiction. To inquire about his paintings, click here.
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