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Bernadette Mayer

Side by side

Windrowing

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

Bernadette Mayer

(United States of America, 1945)

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. Known for her innovative use of language, Mayer first won critical acclaim for the exhibit Memory, which combined photography and narration, and which was recently shown at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago (it's first showing since ...

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Windrowing

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Bernadette Mayer

Windrowing

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