NEWS OF THE NORTH FROM JOHN HAINES 283For his heartland habitat the poet finds a steady tempo and tone:
The land gave up its meaning slowly,
as the sun finds day by day
a deeper place in the mountain.Alaskan glacier.
From John Haines, News from the Glacier: Selected Poems, 1960–1980 (Middletown,
Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1982), courtesy of John Haines.