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Re: Shadowville Mythos: Infinite Family / Will Dockery

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by: General-Zod - Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:32 UTC

George J. Dance wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 6:32:06 AM UTC-4, opb...@yahoo.com 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.

Good read...

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