Palouse Still-Life with Silo

There's a special place in my heart for these grain silos that interrupt the ethereal landscape of the Palouse country in eastern Washington. I've always wanted to go inside for a closer look but have never had the key to unlock a door. Like windmills in Belgium and Holland, these are sacred to the folks who've built them and not for mere mortals (or artists) to nose around. Pure poetry better describes them in "Bunch Grass" written by Robert Sund, (1929-2001) poet, painter and calligrapher whose legacy includes creating "The Poet's House" in Anacortes. His poem gave literary voice to the rolling wheat country east of the Cascade Mountains and is published in "Poems from Ish River Country", available at www.robertsundpoetshouse.org.

My paintings come next, in second place of that chronology. I only know that when you walk through these fields, a line is drawn in the stubble.