'Northwest is Best' 16x20" oil pastel on panel; Kathleen Faulkner |
These are dark times.
I look out to the west
dark clouds have lifted over the Olympics
To the east, the North Cascades shine
beneath the dark, brooding sky
It brings to mind a line from a poem, as it often does,
and 'I am blinded by it's splendor'.*
*'What is the Beautiful' Kenneth Patchen