Windrowing

By Bernadette Mayer

abide with me

don’t ever abide

gimme anytime a pile

of leaf-hay across

the field underneath

the bright new blue

tractor pulling the tedder

which is the waffler or fluffer

Source: Poetry (February 2016)

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An avant-garde writer associated with the New York School of poets, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has spent most of her life in New York City. Her collections of poetry include Midwinter Day (1982, 1999), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The...

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School/Period:
- Language Poetry

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February 2016: "The Obscure Lives of Poets"

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[Sonnet] name address date

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica

Very Strong February

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes

Windrowing