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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 02:20:57 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <9462fd396e512efae6730c78b1924aec@www.novabbs.com> References: <a4b7f5e7-1b03-4ef7-9698-78d31d0b1ec4@googlegroups.com> <slrnpf9geo.9in.pjr@homeridae.org> <bdad26d1-122a-43b9-910d-d4d58c17991b@googlegroups.com> <qae2aa$que$1@dont-email.me> <slrnqcluch.cmq.pjr@homeridae.org> <qanqff$67h$1@dont-email.me> <slrnqd6g0i.q4b.pjr@homeridae.org> <qc785v$25o$1@dont-email.me> <slrnqegb13.gei.pjr@homeridae.org> <qcl670$cu9$1@dont-email.me> <slrnqf2p4b.a6e.peadar.ruadh@id-313441.user.individual.net> <e640a45c2e9932b90e7c3d5b30398e8c$1@www.novabbs.com> <5239ec551afd5d13aa5ea2951ba59449@news.novabbs.com> <daf541bf-0ffa-4697-858a-a8497bdb4305n@googlegroups.com> <e9d7a7b49730019b588269c8b118b131@news.novabbs.com> <978e5c15-0c10-4acb-82ef-f604caa9b9d2n@googlegroups.com> <e027f5a1-3682-4782-a72c-0beabb5152a1n@googlegroups.com> <31619493-c41f-4396-a1f8-c583a28456f0n@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3976224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$0ig9cM6vLu5eOow8JFgwiuzbmZw.DS2Vxi7CbqJ2HJcctnNYnSP.m X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Michael Pendragon wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: >> On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:20:29 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon >> wrote: >>> On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 8:30:20 AM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote: >>> > Faraway Star wrote: >>> > >>> > > Will Dockery wrote: >>> > >> >>> > >> Apple Montage >>> > >> >>> > >> Sneaking around >>> > >> with Cousin Jenny, >>> > >> smoking menthol >>> > >> beyond the sheds. >>> > >> >>> > >> Late summer vacation 1973 >>> > >> in the backwoods of Tennessee. >>> > >> >>> > >> To the right >>> > >> behind the barn >>> > >> were apple trees. >>> > >> >>> > >> There were several >>> > >> of those trees >>> > >> and other trees >>> > >> behind them >>> > >> beyond a field >>> > >> and behind them, other trees. >>> > >> >>> > >> Later, I stood near >>> > >> as a crowd >>> > >> watched Pops and my Uncle >>> > >> cooking apple butter; >>> > >> stirring the brown gunk, >>> > >> boiling in a huge black kettle. >>> > >> >>> > >> I saw my father >>> > >> secretly pass >>> > >> a wine bottle >>> > >> to my Uncle Clarence. >>> > >> >>> > >> I went from >>> > >> breathing cold mist >>> > >> out back behind the barn, >>> > >> to breathing >>> > >> the hot misty steam. >>> > >> >>> > >> The air smelled of apple fumes >>> > >> and strong booze. >>> > >> >>> > >> -Will Dockery >>> > >>> > > This one is so visual it plays out like a short film... bravo... >>> > That's why I called it a montage. >>> A short film is not a "montage," >> I'm well aware of what a montage is, Pendragon. > > Obviously not. So you claim.