today is wilderness

michael raven poems January 15, 2023 1 Minute

today is wilderness

crawl forest heart
beat my chest
antlers on my head
woad painted skin
fingerbone dressed
and briar soul

time forgotten
i lichen stone
i shadow low place songs
kissing spidersilk stretched
between mycellium me
telegraph
a spirit on roam

today is wilderness

Published January 15, 2023

5 thoughts on “today is wilderness”

tara caribou says:

January 15, 2023 at 4:09 pm

Love this old-world style.

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1. michael raven says:
  
  January 15, 2023 at 4:12 pm
  
  Thank you! 🕺
  
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Bridgette says:

January 18, 2023 at 12:45 pm

Oh, I love this. It makes me think of the story of the deer woman calling men to the woods.

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1. michael raven says:
  
  January 18, 2023 at 5:41 pm
  
  It has some of those elements, actually. Intentional, even, although not specific to, if that makes sense.
  
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  1. Bridgette says:
    
    January 18, 2023 at 7:03 pm
    
    I get that—a lot of your poems evoke images of folk tales or Norse mythology. It’s what I love the most about them.
    
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