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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: "Blue Car" / Will Dockery
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:38:40 +0000
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Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Blue Car
>>
>>>> Blue car
>>>> fades into the foggy summer night.
>>>> Through the fog
>>>> there's a street light.
>>>> Another stranger passes into the night.
>>
>>>> Down in the valley
>>>> at the bottom of the city,
>>>> below the radio waves,
>>>> the night moves
>>>> in silent sad swirls.
>>
>>>> At the bottom of the city
>>>> it's silent and still,
>>>> almost dawn.
>>>> Light seeps from behind the trees
>>>> a pale sky, like your eyes.
>>
>>>> White bird flying,
>>>> sundown's edging in.
>>>> Scarlet sun throbbing.
>>>> In another country
>>>> it might be different.
>>
>>>> I hear the sounds
>>>> of birds in the trees
>>>> and you are so close
>>>> soft, like butter.
>>
>>>> I look into your eyes
>>>> in the morning light.
>>>> Walking on dew-covered grass.
>>>> Above us, the clouds churn white
>>>> feels like we're in some other century.
>>
>>>> Sitting on a red clay bank
>>>> in the shimmering, blazing sun.
>>>> You came from behind,
>>>> after watching me for a while,
>>>> then sat with me in the hot dry air.
>>
>>>> The moon is covered
>>>> by grey swirls of clouds,
>>>> as I walk the street at midnight
>>>> I notice a storm is brewing.
>>
>>>> -Will Dockery July 1977
>>
>>>> ----------------------------------
>>>> From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
>>>> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/03/blue-car.html
>>
>>> A slice of 1970s life.... quite good....
>> Thanks again for reading and commenting, Zod.
>
> Once more, one of your greatest of poems....

Thanks, over time I've come to agree.