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  • hear her

    30Mar25 | 10.51 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250330.1051
    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    fever head her
    birch song wind
    russet leaves dead
    sleet ticktaps pines
    as she stands strong

    hear her, hear her
    under the wood
    alder sap & painted
    hear her, hear her
    underdark
    underwood
    shadowsonged

    fever head her
    blackthorn pricks
    stone the river run
    river under ice
    and brambles strong

    hear her...

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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  • The White Reindeer

    29Mar25 | 21.41 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250329.2141

    I just streamed an interesting folk-horror film, White Reindeer. By today’s standards most people who hesitate to call it horror, but it is no less horror than some of the Universal Monsters movies we grew up watching at Saturday matinees at the local theater for $1 an afternoon. Maybe we’ll just call it macabre.

    Scene from "The White Reindeer" (1952), antlers buried in the snow drifts
    Scene from White Reindeer (1952)
    (more…)

    tagged:

    folk stories, folk-horror, movies, sámi representations, white reindeer

    filed under:

    watching

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    The White Reindeer

  • stone turning

    29Mar25 | 11.07 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250329.1107
    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash
    this every stone turned
    hides another lie
    buried in permafrost
    look to the other
    find your heart within
    chase the chill away

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry

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    stone turning

  • Towards the Within — Í Tokuni

    29Mar25 | 09.00 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250329.0900

    Seeing as now that I have more time to actually get on with doing actual writing instead of kvetching about bugs in my commenting system, I plan to fall into a bit more of a rhythm with this series of posts. The current plan is to post the “Towards the Within” series of musical discoveries on Wednesdays and Saturdays each week.

    My current flavor of discovery is focused on trying to find international artists who record darkwave/coldwave/post-punk, or feel as if they might be inspired by that sound. As I listened, I started marking down bands and songs that caught my attention. I always have a handful other than my twice-weekly pick to choose from to write about. Lucky for me, I have been managing to find standout songs new to me that grab me and so that I give it a good couple of listens.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    darkwave, music exploration, towards the within

    filed under:

    listening, Towards the Within

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    Towards the Within — Í Tokuni

  • dawn

    28Mar25 | 22.32 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250328.2232
    back against metal
    frost skin bruised
    waiting for the sun

    concrete chipped cuts
    those nylon nerves
    screaming for the sun

    i love you like
    you don't love me while
    dawning before the sun

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    dawn

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