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Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery

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From: Zod
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 21:10
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On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 12:33:41 AM UTC-4, Raine Carosin wrote:
> Yes, I remember myself too, amazed on an apple farm...  It was truly a maze of whining insects...
>
> On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 5:49:03 AM UTC+2, 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
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> > The other thread for this poem is getting so long I want to start a new one specifically for discussion of the poem, which cntinues.
> >
> > Read original tread at:
> > http://alt.arts.poetry.comments.narkive.com/cEgduQLs/apple-montage-will-dockery-ping-george

Hello Raine.....

I agree and second that..........

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