Loving Green (Raven Again)
Loving Green (Raven Again)
Maybe I’m famished or simply alive
Maybe I’m Stockholm and you’ve been the lie
Maybe the green moss breaks the tree bark makes
the winter rain, here it is to stay
I say a name it’s the wrong one again
It makes no clouds whisper, makes no raven a friend to me
My bodies folding
Around every lived and living thing
Loving, green and feasting
Maybe I’m captain, or simply the hull
Thought I was the rider, but really just the saddle
Maybe a riptide breaks the shoreline makes
This accidental faith
I say a name it’s the wrong one again
It makes no clouds whisper, makes no raven a friend to me
My bodies folding
Around every lived and living thing
Loving, green and feasting to me
My bodies folding
Around every lived and living thing
Loving, green and feasting
You know the foxhole, at the bottom of madrone?
You’ll find me
Looking under wet leaves, sea breeze
Remind me the name, roll it down my tongue
Place me in the timeline, coddle me among
Wet leaves
sea breeze
raven and then
ravin’ again
raven again
ravin’ again
Sometimes you chase a super similar song for a while until you’ve captured it… not sure that I got it this time, but this tune is definitely the spiritual cousin of this one from a few months ago. In case you missed it … the audio is at the top of this post!
I couldn’t resist the play on raven/ravin’. Each feels half true about half the time.
I recently read this series of young adult+ books by the godmother of sci-fi Ursula K LeGuin, called The Earthsea Cycle. I really loved how in these books the wizards (bear with me) only had power over things that they found the true name of and their power was actually just a knack for being able to find the true names of things.
I’ve been circling the subject of naming for a while now … whether it is how we create relationship, how we assert dominance (colonialism), how we detach from things… I haven’t figured it out yet. If you have the answer please tell me :) If you are now thinking … hmm, good point, Mason, this is interesting… I recommend Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane. Gorgeous book about the power of naming!
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