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Kathleen Wakefield

Poetry

Summer 1998

The Swing

By Kathleen Wakefield

TThe far light on the lawn, this humming in the grass swell out of the night the crickets first sing like the source of mid-summer before it begins with the […]

Poetry

Summer 1998

Grace Notes

By Kathleen Wakefield

Smell of ash in the air, a distant burning, and the clatter of wild turkeys, the racket of sex; the woods are full of it,           wing- tipped, cry of the […]