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Infinite Family / Will Dockery

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W-Dockery

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Apr 24, 2023, 11:45:15 PM4/24/23
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George J. Dance wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
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> Today on the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog: Infinite Family by Will Dockery:
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> Infinite Family
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> I have four grandparents
> who each have
> four grandparents
> my sixteen great-
> greatgrandparents [...]
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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.

🙂

General-Zod

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Feb 21, 2024, 11:40:14 PM2/21/24
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Seconded

Will Dockery

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Feb 22, 2024, 12:04:18 AM2/22/24
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Thanks again for the nod.

Faraway Star

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Feb 22, 2024, 12:32:02 AM2/22/24
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You're welcome...
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