This is the water
Scorched motor oil?
Oil = corruption and evil?
And this is the well
The oil pool in Glastonbury Grove?
Drink full
Become corrupted by evil?
And descend
Descend into the lodge or the most terrible parts of the unconscious, and be destroyed, or otherwise be overtaken by your wicked half?
The horse is the white of the eyes
The white horse from Sarah’s visions and the S3 lodge scene.
This horse appears as a portent of death (as in Revelations) and in Twin Peaks it appears when Sarah is being put to sleep, just like the mechanic, waitress, and girl are put to sleep by this poem in part 8.
And dark within
Evil and death. The dark center of the eyes, like the pupil, or like Cooper’s lifeless irises (apparently Kyle’s idea), which are themselves like oil pools (as opposed to limpid pools
