Ravaged Rabbits

New England Black Magic

Robert Lowell, Dante's Inferno shipped
to Boston, become of old New England, 
Lowell's muttering snot only to God,
or perhaps Inferno was there all along

perhaps, horrid thought, as Indigenous,
Dante's Inferno overlaid in this mind,
what a mind, crazed prophetic, of Bob Lowell,
Beatrice in absentia in the arms of Mary

our Queen of non-existent comfort…