GLENN PAPE writes poetry in Portland, Oregon. He says he knew he and his family were Portland natives when his then four-year-old daughter stood on the front porch and said, “Look, Dad, there’s a sun cloud!” “What’s a sun cloud?” he asked. “You know,” she said, “when the sun gets in the way of the clouds.”

Stillness

by Glenn Pape, March 2007 (Issue 375)