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  • Random thought

    09Sep25 | 14.26 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250909.1426

    On whim and a lark, I added feta to my breakfast of steel cut oats, almonds and pepitas. I have added feta with mushrooms, sausages and eggs on my oats in the past, but was hesitant without the other savory ingredients.

    FYI: It tastes damn good, it is less work, and it is better for me than adding a tablespoon of chocolate chips when I don’t want to go through the hassle of frying up eggs, sausages and mushrooms.

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    junk drawer
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  • waiting for

    09Sep25 | 14.20 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250909.1420
    grey fading crabbed hand
    clutching for the only, sleep
    her slow eyes follow, arthritic
    waiting on a sharp grin crooked
    while he shambles thresholds
    waiting for felling to come

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    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Back to the books

    09Sep25 | 12.35 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250909.1235
    library interior
    Photo by Juan Pablo Serrano on Pexels.com

    On the opposite end of the spectrum from my recent nationwide chain bookstore experience, I found plenty of things to throw my money at last night at the used bookstore last night. It absolutely made up for the disappointment I experienced on Sunday.

    For the same cost as buying a single hardcover, I managed to snag five used mass market books and one QP paperback. That’s six books, my friends, for just over $30. And all in good to fantastic shape. And I held back, because there were a few other titles I considered adding to the pile.

    Now I’m set for a couple of weeks of reading material, including those books I already have in my possession that I plan to read.

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    tagged:

    books, internet killed the bookstore, reading lists, reclaiming sanity

    filed under:

    reading
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  • unforgiven

    09Sep25 | 09.15 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250909.0915
    Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash
    destiny is cruel and uncaring
    making itself known by
    streetlight halo wee hours
    leaving restless and waiting
    those wraiths that haunt
    still the night, unforgiven

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    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • let us slumber

    08Sep25 | 14.37 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250908.1437
    Photo by Andres Siimon on Unsplash
    come with me and
    let us slumber and
    dream without
    nightmare or pain
    let our winter
    bury us under
    for long dark nights
    our bones entangled
    skin drawn tight
    let us slumber in
    that everlasting kiss
    and evermore

    tagged:

    melancholia, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • Same as it never was

    08Sep25 | 10.17 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250908.1017
    Photo by Peter Herrmann on Unsplash

    I went to one of the few big bookstores with physical storefronts remaining yesterday. I don’t need to name names. It was not the best experience and I had not realized just how far things had fallen since I last visited large chain bookstores.

    Where it used to be shelves upon shelves of books to choose from, their inventory was greatly diminished and nearly half of what remained was only tangentially related to books. Lego. Jigsaw puzzles. Stuffies. Overpriced boardgames. Toys. Journals and bags to carry those journals.

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    tagged:

    internet killed the bookstore

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    reading
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  • escape hatch

    08Sep25 | 08.11 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250908.0811
    mouth bound in suture
    arms bound to rust
    untrust flowing through veins
    mortar & bricks mine,
    the real horrorshow

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    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • in contraction

    07Sep25 | 09.13 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250907.0913
    in contraction
    pulling back to that
    gloaming within
    shuttering up spaces
    where the light gets in

    shush now

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    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • fade

    06Sep25 | 20.48 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250906.2048
    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash
    i am old ink fading
    on paper browned
    save a prayer
    to send on the wind
    after me for
    when i am gone

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    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • slumberinthat

    05Sep25 | 14.06 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250905.1406
    chilldaycrawl
    intobedcavegrey
    turnofftheworld
    sleepysadweary
    slumberinthatplace
    wherethereis
    notevenme

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    melancholia, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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