FIELDY (n.) 1. A name written in chalk, which is also a proof of existence. 2. The particular gravity of a two-year-old sitting on a floor — not sadness, not play, but the serious business of being. 3. What a lamp does when it knows what the night is doing. 4. The ear, turned outward, listening past the verdict. 5. Blue-grey of rain on glass; amber of a single bulb; the cold cerulean of a cursor blinking in a language the child will one day read, or not. 6. A circled square on a calendar. Written in a different hand from the others. 7. The way a room holds someone at the exact centre of everything without making a sound about it.