Echo Lake

through branches spiked with needles

pine trees long since felled

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the opaque blue of the crater lake

below the white clay walls

a child’s red quilted coat

my father’s voice

               bouncing off the cliffs

my child’s voice

               trying to keep up

Amanda Hunt

Amanda Hunt is a poet and environmental scientist from Rotorua.  Her work has been published in Landfall, Takahē, Mimicry, Poetry NZ, Ngā Kupu Waikato and more.  She has been commended in several New Zealand Poetry competitions.  In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.

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