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Kathleen Gunton embraces her Irish ancestry. As a writer and photographer she is open to the calling of words and images.

A collection of her work, Something Untamed was published in 2000.

Her poems and photographs can often be found in the same journal.

Recent work in: Switchback (online); Arts & Letters; St. Anthony Messenger; and Poetry In The Cathedral (anthology).

In April 2012 she spent two weeks in Ireland with her daughter. Yeat's words never rang so true as on that trip: "We are blest by everything/ Everything we look upon is blest".

Kathleen and her husband make their home in Orange, CA.

ABOUT BEEBEE
- for Father O'

At Loon Cove she runs
before the early fog.
High into the salt air
he arcs the bright yellow
joy of a tennis ball.
BeeBee leaps
retrieving in mid-air.
Her black coat glistens
saliva and sea wash.
Wagging her tail faster
like a dance in faith,
she drops the ball gently
into the palm of his hand.
What is the parable here?
he ponders as he attaches
BeeBee's leash.
And then. . . his own white collar.

© Kathleen Gunton