Weekly Poem: ‘The Field Has a Girl’ by Laurel Snyder

Laurel Snyder is the author of two books of poems, “Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse” and “The Myth of the Simple Machines”; three novels for children, “Penny Dreadful,” “Any Which Wall” and “Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains OR The Search for a Suitable Princess”; and two picture books, “Inside the Slidy Diner” and “Baxter the Kosher Pig.”