Soft

The colors of
Far northwest
Are soft muted
Horizontal lines
Gray blue green
White topped tall
Volcanoes still now
For the moment as the
Train rolls by seaward the
Same pattern of lines of
Color pale blended all
Soft unlike the hard
Shadows bright
Adobe stucco
Stone a coast
Blue yellow
Sands in
South
Cal
Far from
The deep green
Trees forests far from
The misty beaches of
Oregon or the great
Columbia swift as
A snake through
Valleys plains
To the dark
Blue north
Pacific
As the
Sun
Slips
Softly out
Of sight the
Beach pulls up
A blanket of soft
Gray fog with
Yellow lights
Patterned
Across
Along
The beach.