Mercer Bufter

Mercer Bufter's poems have appeared in journals such as Measure and The Portland Review. He lives in Greensboro, NC.

“Trash-Burning”, “National Bohemian Pastoral” and “Memory Tree”

Take the alleged mundanity in “Trash-Burning”—“Out here it’s most weekends in the summer”; the personification of the “chair-back straight” tree in “Memory Tree”; and the Latin “vocat/aestus in umbra” in “National Bohemian Pastoral,” and you glimpse Mercer Bufter’s poetic philosophy.

Issue 8, December 2017

Mercer Bufter

Mercer Bufter's poems have appeared in journals such as Measure and The Portland Review. He lives in Greensboro, NC.

“Trash-Burning”, “National Bohemian Pastoral” and “Memory Tree”

Take the alleged mundanity in “Trash-Burning”—“Out here it’s most weekends in the summer”; the personification of the “chair-back straight” tree in “Memory Tree”; and the Latin “vocat/aestus in umbra” in “National Bohemian Pastoral,” and you glimpse Mercer Bufter’s poetic philosophy.

Issue 8, December 2017

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