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| Walla Walla, WA biography Influences: I grew up hearing crickets chirp outside my door, in a place where the water tasted sweet and I named crawdads in the creek next to my house. In the summer, you could taste the smell of sweet onions and earth. Walla Walla is rich in history and was a stopping point on the Lewis & Clark trail. Wheat fields, orchards and vineyards abound. We have been given the title "Little Napa Valley". I am the second daughter and fourth child in a family of eight children. The greatest influence I can attribute to my writing would be my parents, both possessing intelligence, wit, courage and a romantic spirit. My grandparents, both maternal and paternal, were farmers who instilled in me a love and respect for the earth... Several of my poems have been accepted for publication in Art With Words Poetry Quarterly... Published in the Katrina Journal, Washing The Color of Water Golden by Sun Rising Press... Published in the chapbook, A Place of Amazing Grace, dedicated to the miners of West Virginia, by Art With Words Publications... Soon to published in The Blueprint: Assemblage of The Fifth Element, an online journal
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| Bite Into Life She's a big apple There is more that you can ever know absorbing second hand the smooth coolness of her skin the sweet-tart crispness of her flesh the way the stem dries and sends the remaining life back into the fruit There is so much more than what you can see through your filmy windows The orchard is a blur of red, green and yellow Yet inside those juicy orbs are cells within a cell within a larger sphere of air and time I go there and breathe the fragrance of the sun Your roots are dry they've separated from earth dying from poison springs yet you continue to drink thinking they quench your thirst First take a bite into life then you'll know the differance between sweetwater and a tainted well I go to pick fruit The worms are there to remind me that there is life beyond my own (c) Linda Gayton 2006 |
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