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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:10:54 +0000
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HarryLime 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
>>
>> ----------------
>
> Be that as it may, I've never once boasted of having repeatedly made my
> own Top Ten Poets list.

Just making such a list is a form of boasting.

(Damned autocorrect!)