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Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6)

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The poem is montage in poetry form, made up of a series of images:

>  Apple Montage 
> 
>  Sneaking around 

Image ^^^

>  with Cousin Jenny, 

Image ^^^

>  smoking menthol 

Image ^^^

>  beyond the sheds. 

Image ^^^

>  Late summer vacation 1973 
>  in the backwoods of Tennessee. 

Image ^^^

>  To the right 
>  behind the barn 

Image ^^^

>  were apple trees. 

Image ^^^

>  There were several 
>  of those trees 

Image ^^^

>  and other trees 
>  behind them 

Image ^^^

>  beyond a field 

Image ^^^

>  and behind them, other trees. 

Image ^^^

And so on.
 
>  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 

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Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery

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Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Will Dockery <user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-11 07:06 +0000
  Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Michael Pendragon <user17124@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-11 19:52 +0000
    Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Will Dockery <user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-11 20:02 +0000
    Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Will Dockery <user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-11 20:07 +0000
      Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) - 2026-05-11 16:23 -0400
      Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Michael Pendragon <user17124@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-11 22:40 +0000
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          Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Will Dockery <user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-12 04:42 +0000
        Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) - 2026-05-12 00:04 -0400
        Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) - 2026-05-12 00:11 -0400
        Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Will Dockery <user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-12 04:27 +0000
    Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (Instagram poem #6) Will Dockery <user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-11 20:15 +0000
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