Anent the Yellow Field, Fa-La

Brooks Haxton

The blue that made the grassblades green
withdrew, and under clouds too cold for rain,
despicable, as she who loves and loathes me
says I am, I trudged the undergrowth, my song
a shame to no one in particular: fa-la: a ditty
without meaning, of no use. Where brittle, wan
with rime, the wood rush wasted underfoot,