George J. Dance wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> Today on the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog: Infinite Family by Will Dockery:
>
> Infinite Family
>
> I have four grandparents
> who each have
> four grandparents
> my sixteen great-
> greatgrandparents [...]
>
Read more at:
https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/03/infinite-family.html
> That is one of my favorites of your 2020 poems, Will. I like the way it starts slow, almost like conversation, and leads inexorably, into the rather chilling image of the horde of ghosts at the end.
> My term for that is "Filler and chiller"; it's something I got from Colin Ward - I can't find his original comments on Usenet. The basic idea is that the reader starts off reading one poem, and then suddenly, as a result of some lines, abruptly finds himself in another one entirely.
> Other readers might disagree; but at least this may give them the incentive to go to the blog and read the complete poem for themselves.
Thanks again for reading and commenting, George.
🙂