NP but maybe a hint? RIP Robert Bly.

[rich]

suppose you could add the black dog in M&D, too. I'm sure he was trotting
alongside there somewheres

rich

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 12:07 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sending this not mostly to fill up the Plist with an irrelevant
> poem/homage,
> but because of the line about "the black horse in Cotton Mather's dreams",
> which I did
> not know about which put me in mind of the black riders in Pynchon (as well
> as the riders in *All Along the Watchtower)*
>
>
> What We Have Inherited From the Intellectual Leadership of New England by
> Robert Bly, Issue no. 21 (Spring-Summer 1959)
> I
> The shrouded figure struggling to break from the coffin;
> The sea giving out muffled cries by night;
> The black hose damning the wild river.
> II
> I saw a vision of Cotton Mather, leading
> The Puritans into the gate of hell,
> Lighting the way with a pine bough giving off darkness,
> And a black hen was walking on his chest.
> III
> The thorns of the woods of Massachusetts,
> The black horse in Cotton Mather’s dreams,
> The cloud walking over the face of the sea,
> And the mad form swinging in the branches,
> The comb filled with blood; horses rearing at night.
> [In honor of Robert Bly who died this week at age 94!]
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