NEW POETRY

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They were at

the National

Gallery of

London. He

stood frozen

before

Vincent van 

Gogh’s 

“Sunflowers”.

Totally

mesmerized

by Vincent’s

artistry; the

still life’s vast

confounding

beauty.

She casually

pulled up

beside him.

Intensely

focusing on

the painting

an extended

period.

Asking why

he was

wasting so 

much

time on

such an

amateurish

work.

Brenton Booth lives in Sydney, Australia. His poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, and North Dakota Quarterly, among other journals.