‘Underneath this Drowsy Tree’
Dreaming on Downs by Robert E. Howard, Reading from pages 47-8 of A Word from the Outer Dark
© 2017 James LaFond
NOV/14/17
These five four-line verses, for this reader, convinces that Howard had multi-empathetic ideal of racial identity reflected an ancestral dream. He does care most about the Gaelic bloodline, but exalts Saxons, Norse, Danes, Picts and even Comanche, as if a member of a race that has feuded with his ancestors might possess a mystical empathy for an ancient enemy above all the rest of stranger kind.
Below is Verse 3:
“Death rode his pale horse through the dreaming sky
All through the long red summer afternoon,
And night and silence fell, when silently
The dead men lay beneath a cold white moon.”
winter of a fighting life
within leviathan’s craw
night city
sons of aryas
wife—
logic of force
solo boxing
your trojan whorse
the first boxers
sorcerer!
all-power-fighting
taboo you
into leviathan’s maw
dark, distant futures
masculine axis
ranger?
on combat
hate
when you're food
let the world fend for itself
barbarism versus civilization
beasts of aryas
advent america
the greatest lie ever sold
the lesser angels of our nature
the combat space
the gods of boxing
cracker-boy
america the brutal
on the overton railroad
the year the world took the z-pill
uncle satan
the sunset saga complete
book of nightmares
logic of steel
fiction anthology one
fanatic
the fighting edge
menthol rampage
songs of aryas
triumph
time & cosmos
son of a lesser god
broken dance
z-pill forever
by the wine dark sea
predation
thriving in bad places
blue eyed daughter of zeus
the greatest boxer
fate
honor among men
song of the secret gardener
orphan nation
under the god of things