By Susan Rae Sampson
Linda Bentley left her lover
in New Mexico.
Love was easier to find than water,
and she said she couldn’t grow raspberries there.
Copyright Sampson 2015
Susan Rae Sampson has retired from the working world and writes poems and essays for the pleasure of it. She was the winner of the first chapbook contest from Wild Leek Press with her Book of Birds. Her essays about natural science and history have appeared in Awake in the World and the Archipelago Journal. Her lifestyle articles have appeared in the Wenatchee World newspaper and the Wenatchee Good Life magazine. Her poetry has appeared in the SHARK REEF and Floating Bridge literary journals.
All work by Susan Rae Sampson