©2021 Michael Raven
failing your litmus test of purity only leaves me smiling & smug
shamanic word nomad
Just about the size you can easily ignore.
©2021 Michael Raven
failing your litmus test of purity only leaves me smiling & smug
©2021 Michael Raven
embracing
ugly me
i reject
your standards
of beauty
©2021 Michael Raven
gently
i rain
over your
fallow
fields
so
parched
© 2021 Michael Raven
on the rock-strewn strand
crows dance away from waves
laughing
©2021 Michael Raven
the norn are a-weaving & i am tangled in their skein
©2021 Michael Raven
touching
transmutes
to
shattered
ruin
©2021 Michael Raven
when i leave gift me to the four winds -- where i belong
©2021 Michael Raven
to be the sea is to forget the sea, an anchoring burden cut free
©2021 Michael Raven
overhead --
thought and memory
ash and thorn
©2021 Michael Raven
in the wake of my corruption everything touched is stained