Poetry. Poet Tim McNulty served as lookout in Washington's North Cascades during the fire season of 2003. These poems and journal entries evoke the wild beauty and solitude he experienced during his time among the peaks. Sample Poem:Night, Sourdough Mountain LookoutA late-summer sunthreads the needles of McMillan Spiresand disappears in a reef of coral cloud.Winds roil the mountain trees, batter the shutter props.I light a candle with the coming dark.Its reflection in the window glassflickers over mountains and shadowed valleysseventeen miles north to Canada.Not another light.The lookout is a dim staranchored to a rib of the planetlike a skiff to a shoal in a wheeling sea of stars.Night sky at full flood.Wildly awake.