The threads into the future

The threads into the future
I catch with my fingertips,
And tracing them a little way,
I think I come to grips

With what will happen years
From now, implicit in today.
How I can see and know they’ll
Come to be, I cannot say.

About Kay Whitaker

Kay Whitaker was born in Tipton, Oklahoma, in October, 1941. She attended Texas Christian University, where she won the Freshman Poetry Contest and was an editor on the Freshman Literary Magazine. She attended the University of Oklahoma, where she published in The Windmill, the campus literary magazine, and was society editor of The Oklahoma Daily. She graduated with a degree in professional writing and worked for a year as police reporter and feature writer on The Daily Ardmoreite in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She then worked for three years as a political writer for the Cambridge Chronicle while supporting her husband through Harvard Law School. In 1970, she served as assistant city editor of The Dallas morning News. She wrote this volume of poetry while living in a cabin the the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her second husband, Timothy Travis. Kay Whitaker is deceased.

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