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Poem of the week: When winter comes by Jane Clarke

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The rich colours of a forge, and the controlled violence of the blacksmith’s tools offer vivid imagery for an elegy about grief

When winter comes

remember what the blacksmith
knows – dim light is best

The paradox of the elegy is that the poem is finite: grief, in that circumscribed world, comes to an end

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