🚀 go-pugleaf

On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 4:40:50 PM UTC-4, 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
>
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Odd how that happens.........