To Mr. Elkin

[MoonyLuna]

Daily as the lazy lily
the silly daisy let's be
while we drink the wine
stronger than the dock
on which we recline
swimming alone mid-week
not enough paid work
to have a car to get here
or there with, enough
wherewithal to be
the subjects of your generosity
we return to you our views
tenants of this particular nature
as news in poems and lines
novels similar to building
a cabin or even buying something
our occupation being seeing
when no one else is around
each productive cloud clearly
then naming them & at night
when the kids have gone to sleep
studying like everyone love's arcs
death's vines & the wines with a supper
of something like free clouds found
to give strength and pleasure
to us and everyone else around.


copyright
Bernadette Mayer

[MoonyLuna]

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Bernadette Mayer


Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1980-1984. She has received grants and awards from PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.