Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery

"Coco DeSockmonkey"  wrote in message

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Will Dockery wrote:
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Apple Montage
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 Sneaking around
 with Cousin Jenny,
 smoking menthol
 beyond the sheds.
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 Late summer vacation 1973
 in the backwoods of Tennessee.
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 To the right
 behind the barn
 were apple trees.
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 There were several
 of those trees
 and other trees
 behind them
 beyond a field
 and behind them, other trees.
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 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.
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 I saw my father
 secretly pass
 a wine bottle
 to my Uncle Clarence.
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 I went from
 breathing cold mist
 out back behind the barn,
 to breathing
 the hot misty steam.
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 The air smelled of apple fumes
 and strong booze.
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-Will Dockery

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HTH & HAND.

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I see the poem.

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Who doesn't....?