Summary: <p>Your attitude toward rain and seemingly endless dark skies may be the best litmus test for whether you are a true Northwesterner. Do you resist or embrace the shift toward dark, wet days? In her poems “Under the Graphite Sky” and <a href="http://kathleenflenniken.com/blog/?p=61">“Strange How You Stay,”</a> Orcas Island poet Dorothy Trogdon gives us a uniquely Pacific Northwestern view of winter.</p><p></p><p>Trogdon is the author of two chapbooks and a full length poetry collection, “Tall Woman Looking” published by Blue Begonia Press earlier this year. She has a degree in Art History from Wheaton College and earned a Masters of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. She has lived on Orcas Island since 1985.</p><p>Her reading of these and other poems including <a href="http://www2.kuow.org/program.php?id=27446">"Desire, Like a Hungry Lion,"</a> was recorded in the KUOW Studios on June 21, 2012.</p>
