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Llewellyn McKernan

Poetry

Autumn 1981

Mountain Idyll

By Llewellyn McKernan

Here is the light of the heart, yellow as apples. Trees shoot up overnight, shaped like the nightmare  in a gothic novel, above them the sky is rainbow colored. The […]

Poetry

Autumn 1981

Swimming

By Llewellyn McKernan

She slips like a vow through blue water, rides a white lion that slides through her fingers, talks learnedly of touching her hand to the bottom. The water is dappled […]