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                                   Please compose a short poem in the manner of poet
                                   Del Ray Cross, using his blog Anachronizms at
                                   anachronizms.blogspot.com as inspiration.

ChatGPT said: Sure! Del Ray Cross often blends a haunting sense of time and

place with a tinge of nostalgia and reflective melancholy in his writing. He writes

with a kind of fragmented lyricism, exploring the delicate layers of memory and

history. Here’s a short poem inspired by his style:

The Field at Dusk

There are days when the light hums—

a pulse beneath the tattered map

of every place I've left behind.

A clouded road, still haunting the hill’s edge,

bristles with the rust of forgotten years.

In the field, the wind carries stories—

half-heard names and the soft echoes

of children’s laughter that no one remembers.

We walked here once,

on the day the sky split in two.

Time wraps around these bones,

and still, the grass does not care.

It pushes through cracks in the earth

like forgotten words,

lost before they could be spoken.

I tried to evoke a sense of temporal dislocation, common in Del Ray Cross’s work, while keeping the atmosphere wistful yet unresolved. Does this capture what you had in mind?

author’s note: this is the second Anachronizm with which I’ve utilized ChatGPT
                     (in the first one, posted many months ago, ChatGPT is uncredited)