Through the field

[PoetryAndPhysics]

Hello R.C. Kitchen. I liked your initial impulse not to capitalize, and the idea of being overly descriptive as a distraction from the poem's subject matter. Does have some potential if you choose to keep going with it.

through the field, past the briers and blackberry bushes
down where the pines overtook the landscape,
by a pond where the stench of still water lingered in
the breeze, Maybe add something like “in the ominous breeze” to do some foreshadowing...

a wooden structure stood about eleven feet high.
three eight by twelve foot railroad tie's made the
device, two ties about twelve feet apart and one
resting on top of them,

The thick hemp rope directly in the center of the why start capitalizing now? I'd leave them out alltogether.
beam above head, lap'd over a few times and tied
off, the noose hanging two foot downward

There was a old beaten stool made of oak propped
against the side of one tie,

The sun was blazing in the distance as the voices
grew louder with there heckling, maybe shorter and one stand alone line for emphasis? Something like

the sun blazed in the distance as voices grew angry with heckling.

Some men were so enthusiastic, they danced around
the structure, hollering. The hollering was as a language
of its own, echoing through the pines and terrain The stanza comes off as porsy to me...

The man caught, he was a negro who stole a chicken. Don't need to say he was caught, maybe just “The thief was a negro who stole chicken.”
Earlier that day He had a trial and was found guilty,
he had plead to those few around the courthouse
"let me be freed" he said as he was being taken out
as men began to shout, circling him while he waved
his shackled hands upward in prayer If there were "few" around the courthouse, how could a posy of men suddenly start circling?

The breeze brought about the stagnant water
as they had him stand on the stool
they placed the rope around his shivering body
he screamed out "I don't want to die."

It took about thirty minutes to bring that negro down
to this wasteland and as they kicked the stool out
from his feet, twenty minutes to hang him dead