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THE GLEANERS AND I
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G as in gleaning -
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To glean is to gather
after the harvest.
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A gleaner is one who gleans.
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In times past only women gleaned.
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Millet's Glaneuses
were in all dictionaries.
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The original painting
is at the Orsay.
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Gleaning, that's the old way.
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My mother'd say, '' Pick everything up
so nothing gets wasted''.
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But sadly we no longer do
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because machines
are so efficient nowadays.
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But before, I used to glean
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together with my neighbors,
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for wheat, and rice too.
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I would put my big apron on
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and we'd go gleaning ears of wheat,
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lovely ears we would find.
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A whole day in the sun,
with gnats and mosquitoes biting,
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it wasn't too nice,
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but we liked it.
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Evenings, we were exhausted. Once
home with our bags and our aprons
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we'd have a good time laughing
and drinking coffee together.