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Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery

#819080
From: tzod9964@gmail.c
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:36
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Will Dockery wrote:

> "General Zod"  wrote in message
>> news:af7d0d6b-d1c9-40dc-9a63-eb3ee15f93e5@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
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
>>
>> > Here is the "Apple Montage" poem, for scrutiny and comment.
>>>
>>
>> Good let's discuss this now and sort out Pen's lies.... You know Pen, though, once he lies, he really digs in with it...!

> You nailed it, Zod.

> 🙂

Good day, and I thank.....

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