Mary McCleary 2016- 2021 Mixed Media Collage on Paper
Finding Myself in Life as in a Strange Garment
2021
Mixed Media Collage on Paper
22 3/4"x 30"

The title is a line from a poem by W.S. Merwin
"For the Anniversary of My Death"

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveler
Like the beam of a lightless star

Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
And the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease
And bowing not knowing to what
2016- 2021