our wonderful, wild field is GONE!

mowed down with large green tractors - the thistle, the wild flowers, the tall prairre like grass - all GONE! i think of all the creatures, both animal and insect, that lived in the field; the birds, the field mice, the lizards and toads, the caterpillars and the ants, the crickets too. the armadillo and the feral cats, all the nesting creatures now without a home. i'm sure there were snakes and slugs and snails too. last night max and i wondered into the field - we usually stayed near the sidewalk as the grass and such was almost as tall as me [okay, at 4' 11 3/4 inches that may not be saying a lot] so walked, the dried freshly cut grass crunching under my shoes, the strong smell of 'green' almost too much to bear.....in the distance i saw two figures moving, they disappeared! then i realized that in the middle of our field was a great big 'dip', a crater that was invisible before the cut; two deer were running away as they sensed max and i getting closer. deer, that one always surprises me even though i have been in san marcos for 20 years, this city girl is always amazed to see the deer. they too have lost the cover for the their fawns in the field - the land lays nearly naked; the brush that sheltered so many, murdered with the passing of a tractor.