Print of painting with poem is meant to be displayed with the painting, Trichotomy, Diptych I, or on its own. The poem brings the viewer into the painting on multiple levels. The print is available as a high quality print in a variety of sizes through my charlesrileyartwebsite. The poem follows:

The Trichotomy of Man and Nature
(Yes, it does say trichotomy.)
By Charles Riley

Puzzled rabbit encounters toilet.
Toilet design rejects unsanitary handles.
The rabbit is protected in a trap.
It’s a pay toilet of the Cloud of Unknowing.
What does a rabbit do with a toilet?
Pay with the loss of the organic?
Pay with the loss of eternal presence?
Should a rabbit have to pay
When nature nurtures a toilet?
Does a magic rabbit disappear into the sanitized flush
To appear again in lost dimensions?
The rabbit is precariously balanced
In the trichotomy of man, nature and unseen light.
The puzzled rabbit is a question mark as
The toilet is an upside down question mark.
The strand of light is the unseen light
Behind the clouded screen of learned sight,
a future like the past through the eye of the present.
We know in a mute way to see more
When we let go of what pins us to the surface.
We pride ourselves in the importance of the smallest article
At the exclusion of more in the word unheard,
Like the background of a painting
And not only the background
But the gallery and the person
And the rabbit in the woods .
Out of our hands,
The pug of mystic revelation
Shares the origin of creation pouring forth.
There is no illusion to be found in smoke or mist
When it appears from a dog’s uncluttered mouth.

Added May 28, 2019

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