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Fruit and Bird

The Art of David Wiley

River Crossing

The trail plays hide & seek
with the sound of the rushing water.
Every green door opens with a light touch.
Every room is filled with sunbeams.
Here is the river,
the bridge made of tree material,
sinewy like a tight muscle
pulling continents together.
Over the river lies a history of animals.
Half way across I feel hypnotized:
the roar of the water,
the swaying of the bridge,
the brilliance of the sun,
my dry mouth.
Let there be fish in the pools!

 

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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.

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