A Sure Sign of Spring

Linda Marie HiltonJuly 15, 2020

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A Sure Sign of Spring

written by: Linda Marie Hilton

cheery cherry blooms

against an azure sky for

an unjustly short week.

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Linda Marie Hilton

A native New Englander, Linda Marie Hilton moved to NYC in her early twenties, her dream to become an orchestral musician. Starving, she began working as an accounting clerk, returned to night school, working her way up to audit staff. Displaced by computerization, she moved out west, starving again, she became a poet.

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