Poet Robert Bly, a tireless advocate for his art form, who over the course of half a century transformed American poetry and was also central to the controversial men's movement, died Sunday, November 21,2021. He was 94 years old.
"Driving North from San Francisco"
We cross the sleeping water on the San Rafael Bridge.
Red rocks lie in it, like sleepers who will not awake.
The water is deep blue,
Washing quietly about the rocks, as if watching.
We drive north through brown hills in the California winter,
Hills with green trees, sloping quickly down to the road,
Or to a barn fence, with twenty skinny cows,
And two men spreading some straw in a field.