Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery

Will Dockery wrote:

On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:20:29 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon
wrote:

On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 8:30:20 AM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:

Faraway Star wrote:
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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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This one is so visual it plays out like a short film... bravo...

That's why I called it a montage.

A short film is not a "montage,"

I'm well aware of what a montage is, Pendragon.

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Obviously not.