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Article #588976Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery
From: Zod
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 21:10
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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