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Sundown

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August 22, 2022
Sundown, Laura Knight, 1947
painting of a sunset over the hills

Elizabeth Barton is an artist and poet from New Zealand…

A finger of last light
touches the starry hoheria flowers,
gold benediction in a fading tapestry
as the horizon, sighs, eclipses
the void in haloed fire,
honeyed drops on the alchemist’s alembic.

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Elizabeth Barton is an artist and poet from New Zealand with work featured in Pink Plastic House, The Failure Baler, Spillwords, Fevers of the Mind, Black Bough Poetry’s Rapture and Winter/Christmas Edition 2021, and Vita Brevis’ Anthology III, Nothing Divine Dies. A winner of the White Label Cinq poetry competition in 2020, she has a collection soon to be published with Hedgehog Poetry Press.

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