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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:30:20 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> "Coco DeSockmonkey"  wrote in message
>>> news:8be0e12d-f23e-4f46-85e6-3c1d79484467@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
>>>>
>>>> HTH & HAND.
>
>>>> I see the poem.
>
> Who doesn't....?

Exactly

🙂