Thud.

[Flos Campi]

Thank you to both of you for your feedback! I will almost definitely drop the capitals and punctuation when I revise this, although I am reluctant to remove the words that you suggested (mostly "now", although I can see ways to rewrite the last line without "of thuds") due to wanting to preserve the meter.

And of course, the more Francis Bacon stimulates our thoughts the better.