furnaces belching
ghost trees stand in factories
watch their bodies burn
I visited the British Library after work, conveniently it’s pretty much next door to the gothic beauty of St Pancras station, where I get my train home.
The current exhibition Writing Britain, Wastelands to Wonderlands is well worth a visit. The curators have selected some absolute treasures of the British Library collection from the genius of British and Irish writing. it celebrates the land through the beauty of the words written in honour (or more rarely, in spite) of it.
It’s inspiring and almost overwhelming, the complete list of works is available here. It’s a powerful testament to this land.
My Haiku quotes a tiny element of a longer poem I’ve written on my other blog. It humbly references one of the themes of the exhibition, the loss of green places to the spread of industrialisation.
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