Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (revised)

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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Revised and updated June 2023 for the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/?m=1

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