“Whistle Keepers, 1883”

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Click here to read “Whistle Keepers” by Kathleen McClung.

Kathleen McClung is the author of Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press 2013), and her poems have appeared in Mezzo Cammin, Unsplendid, Atlanta Review, A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens, and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. Having received master’s degrees in English and education from California State University Fresno and Stanford University, she lives in San Francisco, California, and teaches for Skyline College and The Writing Salon. She also serves as the sponsor/judge for the sonnet category of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Online at kathleenmcclung.com.