Bosworth Field

Abstract

Bosworth Field M. Cynthia Cheung (bio) Centuries of winter ploughingand continuous progress have leveledthe ground—no casual observer now wouldthink about how much iron our ancestors laid down.Iron, having lives of its own, moves cyclicallyin and out of bodies, like rain. It's true, if you combedthe land, you'd find old Romancoins, Tudor hat pins—just thingspeople lost. But iron returns to the earth invisibly—nobody abandons steel to the aftermathof crows and foxes slinking afield, countingthe dead. No, blood seeps through the soiluntil it's swallowed. It's like breathing, almost,how we've forgotten that this rusted marsh stillexists everywhere—an endless ice-limnedsurface, ripening its crop of faces. [End Page 237] M. Cynthia Cheung M. Cynthia Cheung is a physician whose writing can be found in The Baltimore Review, RHINO, Salamander, SWWIM, Tupelo Quarterly and others. Currently, she serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine's annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards. Find out more at www.mcynthiacheung.com. Copyright © 2022-2023 Pleiades and Pleiades Press