2. I followed this up with Leonard Cohen’s “The Ballad of an Absent Mare”. And while we were still sequestered in our homes, I began posting a new song from my library each week. The result is a collection of images I titled, “See What I Hear.” In this song Cohen uses a mare as symbolic of a lost lover, “Say a prayer for the cowboy / His mare’s run away / And he’ll walk ‘til he finds her / His darling, his stray”. The song can be interpreted as an analogy for a lost love.
