NP but maybe a hint? RIP Robert Bly.

[Mark Kohut]

Well, black dog of depression is a thing....Churchill, among others, I
believe.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20dog

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 2:20 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!]
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
>