golden hour
'golden hour' imbues all the summer sunshine of fresh love into its nostalgic verse.
In the autumn of 2021, I challenged myself to write a poem each day for a month. Some of them were angry, others trite, and still more were best left in the notebook which continues to gather dust on my shelves. But a few rang true, and said what I wanted to say. 'golden hour' is one of them. It reflected on a love that had recently bloomed in my life, and one which I was deeply in the grip of. It pulled together the images, the tastes, and the fragments of memory that characterised this person at that early stage. When I unearthed the poem recently, there was much of it that was just as sweet to recall as it was to live through.
We are still together, enjoying a life that feels like an extended golden hour.
About the Artist
Violet Grace Fink is an actress and writer living in London. She works to deliver essential stories to the world through a variety of mediums; her own acting, the publishing business she runs with her sister, Ruby, and now, through her ongoing work with Noon Miracle. On her days off, she enjoys long walks through her neighbourhood with her love and drinking cappuccinos like it's an Olympic sport.