The hay tedder on the back of the tractor, that lifts and turns the cut hay, gets its name from the verb, ‘ted’, from the Old English ‘teddan’ that has Scandinavian and Old Norse origins. The hayman tells me that while machinery has changed the labour and pace, the process of gathering hay has remained unchanged for a millennium: cutting, turning, raking, baling.
the hay's second turn
the gathering of swallows
on the telephone lines
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