About Robert Bly

Robert Bly's most recent books of poems are The Night Abraham Called to the Stars and Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, both from HarperCollins. His selected translations, The Winged Energy of Delight, appeared in 2004 from HarperCollins.

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The Horses Coming Up Behind

Robert Bly

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Have you noticed the horses galloping past us?
Perhaps they are horses with no riders at all.
Perhaps they are riders who have turned into horses.

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