Revisiting “Finland” by Victoria Broome (From The Backlist)

Last week, I featured “On Writing”, from a post written in 2012.

The immediately preceding post was Victoria Broome’s poem, Finland, which I featured as a Tuesday Poem on 6 March 2012.

On re-reading, I thought all over again what a wonderful poem it is, so am sharing it with you again today.

Finland

She returned to Finland with her children
wrapped tight against the ice of the night.
So blue their throats ached.
It was a return to the old times, familiar pain,
the first crack of a river in thaw,...