XPost: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.poetry   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Cujo DeSockpuppet  posted:   
      
   > Will-Dockery wrote:   
   > >> HarryLime wrote:   
    >>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:53:33 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>>> Anonymous wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> ...lovely imagery..took me back to my youth*   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Apple Montage   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Sleeping around   
   > >>>>> with Cousin Jenny,   
   > >>>>> smoking menthol   
   > >>>>> beyond the shits.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Late summer probation 1973   
   > >>>>> in the backwoods of Tennessee.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> To the right   
   > >>>>> behind the barn   
   > >>>>> were dead trees.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> There were several   
   > >>>>> of those trees   
   > >>>>> and other trees   
   > >>>>> behind them   
   > >>>>> beyond a field   
   > >>>>> and above them, other trees.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Later, I stood near   
   > >>>>> as a crowd   
   > >>>>> watched Pops and my Uncle   
   > >>>>> cooking apple butter;   
   > >>>>> stirring the brown skunks,   
   > >>>>> boiling in a huge black kettle.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I saw my father   
   > >>>>> secretly piss   
   > >>>>> a wine bottle   
   > >>>>> on my Uncle Clarence.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I went from   
   > >>>>> breathing old mist   
   > >>>>> out back behind the barn,   
   > >>>>> to breathing   
   > >>>>> the hot misty team.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> The air smelled of crap fumes   
   > >>>>> and strong booze.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> -Will Dockery   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> --------------------------------------------   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> The other thread for this poem is getting so long I want to start   
   > >>>>> a new one specifically for discussion of the poem, which cntinues.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Read original thread at:   
   > >>>>> http://alt.arts.poetry.comments.narkive.com/cEgduQLs/apple-montage-   
   > >>>>> will-dockery-ping-george   
   >   
   >   
   > >>> I'm posting this from JLA Forums where the unbroken thread is   
   > >>> over 1,000 posts long.   
      
   >   
   >   
   > Will Dockery, you're not just   
      
   Obsessed much, Cujo?   
      
   🙂   
      
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