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  • tangled

    23Apr25 | 21.29 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250423.2129
    tangled christine &
    soldiers marching tin
    on shadows & smoke
    with eyes casting stars
    --how bright they are
    a shower glittershines down

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    tangled

  • Mean

    23Apr25 | 14.24 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250423.1424

    What compels a person to be mean just to be mean?

    I am thinking of a couple of scenarios I’ve encountered lately, but when you dial back the vision and look at things 10k feet up in the sky, there seems to be a lot of mean-spirited shit going on at this time. Why?

    someone’s interpretation of Death of the Endless; unknown copyright, found online

    I mean, people are getting off on someone else’s misery as our country goes off the rails. And it isn’t just my country where certain people are reveling in the miserly of other people… There’s evidence of it all over the place in this world, like 00s 4chan took over everyone’s sensibilities. People are obsessed with keeping score on who pwn’d who.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    questions without answers

    filed under:

    thinking

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    Mean

  • cairn & cattails

    23Apr25 | 09.27 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250423.0927
    Photo by Nicole Elliott on Unsplash
    crow calling at trees
    a name of her buried
    of cairn and cattails
    rushes in the breeze

    windswept waters
    wrinkle at their song
    so, too, the waving of
    hellebore between
    shadow and sun

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    writing

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    cairn & cattails

  • tossing a rune — 22apr25

    22Apr25 | 13.44 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250422.1344
    cut & cautery
    carve away those
    parts we do not like
    & give to smoke that
    not given to root
    not given to bone

    sun gazing &
    dizzy of dance—
    reborn

    Today rune is kenaz. The word has been associated with “ulcer” and “torch”, depending on which rune poem is used or name derivation you embrace. By extension, it implies flame and illumination as secondary meanings. Tertiary meanings come from ideas associated with those themes (e.g., burning, knowledge, light in darkness).

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, kenaz, poetry, rune

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    poetry, writing

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    tossing a rune — 22apr25

  • stone rains

    22Apr25 | 08.36 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250422.0836
    Photo by Kevin Hessey on Unsplash
    beyond pale bone pointing
    carved within the fells
    this cracked heart flinted
    veined of moss
    framed in lichen
    feathered at grey & blue
    here, i drink stone rains
    here, i bathe in sweat
    in steam's sharp relief

    tagged:

    poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    stone rains

  • unsleeps

    21Apr25 | 20.25 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250421.2025
    i have been twisting
    bedsheets into ropes
    in unsleep at nights
    trying to untie my
    soul from tinctures
    of thorn and regret

    some black stones
    at the ocean and
    under a beggar's
    moon, hair flows
    rivers as night
    stars fall showers
    razoring fingers
    in the tweens

    a barred owl
    plays sentry in
    lush trees
    can i help but
    come when called?

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    unsleeps

  • trinkets

    21Apr25 | 14.07 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250421.1407
    Photo by Sina Bakhtiari on Unsplash
    we are carved
    jagged of purpose
    we are wraps
    we are rags
    we flint, we thorn
    we tooth, we bone
    suns twinned, southern low
    cracked lips, nail broke
    ragged

    we winter in heart
    waiting for blood

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry

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    trinkets

  • ever the stones

    21Apr25 | 07.05 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250421.0705
    Photo by Cornelia Munteanu on Unsplash
    there is a hollow in the center where
    only the trees & ever the stones
    know my name

    blind, the trailhead of myrkr & mist
    look to ancestors below your feet
    recalling we are all related
    spreading as spores & tendrils
    on & on

    remember november?
    for the chill rains falling, i sheltered
    at the hollow on the center where
    only the trees & ever the stones
    know my name

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    ever the stones

  • slag cast, drawn

    20Apr25 | 19.28 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250420.1928
    black wooden fence on snow field at a distance of black bare trees
    Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
    drawing razorwire taut tendons
    tight breath rustneedle intake
    bury me leaves under shallow
    bury me leaves under stone
    rain wash silt the river down
    rain wash silt the river down

    fidget fingers making shadow words
    fidget fingers making broken songs
    fidget finger fidget misfit
    metal gestalt cuts memory sharp

    close winter my eyes of
    slag cast, drawn...

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, exocisms, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    slag cast, drawn

  • acceptance

    20Apr25 | 12.03 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250420.1203
    Photo by Ronin on Unsplash
    dizzy for the ringing
    we shambled to heartwood
    sought our way to breathing
    taking in the place where
    we are already beautiful
    if only we can shed skin
    and cast off our rags
    others have bound us
    within

    if trees accept us
    as we are, can we
    accept the trees?

    tagged:

    acceptance, healing, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    acceptance

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