I set out to paint the light

David Matthews. David Matthews is a native of the South Carolina Midlands, resident of Portland, Oregon, poet, runner, and unaffiliated intellectual. He draws on diverse traditions to fashion poems that at their best convey a sense of something akin to what the Romantics referred to as the sublime and the Surrealists termed the marvelous. Poems have appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Quill & Parchment, Fault Lines (anthology), and elsewhere.