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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 04:37:56 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> "General Zod"  wrote in message
>>> news:af7d0d6b-d1c9-40dc-9a63-eb3ee15f93e5@googlegroups.com...
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> > Here is the "Apple Montage" poem, for scrutiny and comment.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good let's discuss this now
>
>> Not sure what's left to discuss, reposting this one for comment and
>> critique from the newer readers here, and future readers.
>
>> HTH and HAND.
>
>
> Cool poem....

Thanks again for the endorsement Zod.