Will Dockery wrote:

>
>> Apple Montage
>>
>> Sneaking around
>> with Cousin Jenny,
>> smoking menthol
>> beyond the sheds.
>>
>> Late summer vacation 1973
>> in the backwoods of Tennessee.
>>
>> To the right
>> behind the barn
>> were apple trees.
>>
>> There were several
>> of those trees
>> and other trees
>> behind them
>> beyond a field
>> and behind them, other trees.
>>
>> 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

One of the all-time best....

Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>>
>>> Apple Montage
>>>
>>> Sneaking around
>>> with Cousin Jenny,
>>> smoking menthol
>>> beyond the sheds.
>>>
>>> Late summer vacation 1973
>>> in the backwoods of Tennessee.
>>>
>>> To the right
>>> behind the barn
>>> were apple trees.
>>>
>>> There were several
>>> of those trees
>>> and other trees
>>> behind them
>>> beyond a field
>>> and behind them, other trees.
>>>
>>> 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

> One of the all-time best....

Thanks again for the nod, General Zod.

🙂