John Haines

2008-10-19 at 12:02 a.m.

Tundra

The tundra is a living
body, warm in the grassy
autumn sun; it gives off
the odor of crushed
blueberries and gunsmoke.

In the tangled lakes
of its eyes a mirror of ice
is forming, where
frozen gut-piles shine
with a dull, rosy light.

Coarse, laughing men
with their women;
one by one the tiny campfires
flaring under the wind.

Full of blood, with a sound
like clicking hoofs,
the heavy tundra slowly
rolls over and sinks
in the darkness.

Foreboding

Something immense and lonely
divides the earth at evening.

For nine years I have watched from an inner doorway:
as in a confused vision,
manlike figures approach, cover
their faces, and pass on,
heavy with iron and distance.

There is no sound but the wind
crossing the road, filling
the ruts with a dust as fine as chalk.

Like the closing of an inner door,
the day begins its dark
journey, across nine bridges
wrecked one by one.

-

did this set for our P1 mock paper. i don't know what went wrong with me that day but i spent two hours on this and i still couldn't complete it. i couldn't bring myself to cause the longer it dragged out, the deeper i tried to go, the more i felt i was loosing my mind and i couldn't depend on it. after i left the hall, and when i reread these they feel rather unspectacular. but for that moment when i was sitting very alone at my plastic desk with the hollow billow of air conditioning. they felt so real, i really believed them, i saw moments in my mind.

i felt scared and unusual after cause i didn't know what happened, and i'm going to fail my A level lit.

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