Autumn sunset's light
slants over the vast field, bared
by recent hard frosts:
broken stubble sprawls; trees, stripped
bare; my soul, long stripped---wordless.
Kyakuchuu
Author's Notes/Comments:
Almost forty-five years after the event, the poem attempts to describe a rural frield just outside the small college town where I lived. After ten weeks away from BlueLevels, the college had stripped me of joy---which would (spoiler alert!) be restored, by BlueLevels, sooner than I anticipated. But, at that moment, I felt bereft of all but my as yet immature faith, and my c.b. handle.