Forgotten Fields

As the multi-stanza direction (that is, the lyrical ballad) of “Mist from the Mountains” nears completion, two things become clear: that the other directions I wished to explore have become redundant, so integrated into its stanzas that they now strike me as academic, and that the title of the poem must be shortened to “Mist”, as “Mist from the Mountains” strikes me as needlessly long.