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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 02:20:57 +0000
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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.