Bringing down the birds

I have never walked across this field before

it's not one of those fields for walking across

it has crops that are probably important

but it's been freshly ploughed

by a happy red loyal tractor

and when you are told by medical experts

to be two metres away from any other human

walking across a ploughed field sounds appealing.

Childrens' books teach us that farmers

are happy, jolly, avuncular types

maybe that's what I'm looking for as I lie down

on the comfortable dirt looking up at how blue

the sky is wondering what all the birds make of this

I'm not going to mention to them what's happening

I'm sure they figure these things out for themselves.

'I'm John' I will say to the farmer if one approaches me

'thanks for letting me walk across your field.'