RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.

Wednesday, December 9

progress is measured in miles;
meanwhile resistance inches
along in concealed shadows
pictures of the sun show full
abundance of light - white so
pure you can’t even see it

Tuesday, December 8

turtle carries the world's weight,
but raven is a trickster,
so I pile on few more pounds

Monday, December 7

weasel-looking white women
considered perfect result
of the new world’s delusions
messages carved in tree skins
only legible during
full moonlight close to solstice

Sunday, December 6

Saturday, December 5

what once was factory fresh
slowly becomes infused through
years with the power of lounge
can't comprehend the cross fade
when hearing with digitized
eardrums trained to syncopate

Friday, December 4

watching world spin awkwardly
through my detritus filters,
unable to make out truth

Thursday, December 3

anticipated scars cause
cringing of motivation,
leaving me hiding from hope
nobody off-the-grid - they
know your coordinates, your
inquisitive net inputs

Wednesday, December 2

printed words not as precious
as they portend; too many
think self-expression is right

Tuesday, December 1

gentrified urban planning
long cons non-felons into
believing the dream’s still real
daily word meditations
ignored become a crushing
burden inside ordered head

Monday, November 30

twenty-one syllable form
meditation made up by
piecing together fragments

Sunday, November 29

concrete merchant marine ships
make bay mouth barrier; big
water birds build no-man nests

TOP TEN SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES IN COUNTRY BOYS


#1: FARM-RAISED COUNTRYBOYS/SKINTONE DYED TO APPEAR WILD/BUT GENETIC MODS
#2: GENETICALLY/MODIFIED LATE MODEL STOCK/CARS RACE DIRT CIRCLES
#3: FARM-RAISED RURAL SOUTH/BUT ALSO APPALACHIAN/GREATER DOOMED FOOTPRINTS
#4: GENETICALLY/ENGINEERED ALONG STRIP-MINED/HUMAN RESOURCE PLANS
#5: FARM-RAISED AS LABOR/NOTHING MORE, AVERAGE MULE/OF AN ALPHA MALE
#6: GENETICALLY/PREDISPOSED TO ADDICTION/AND SELF-DESTRUCTION
#7: FARM-RAISED BUT "FREE RANGE"/IF BY "FREE" YOU MEAN TRAPPED IN/NOTION OF NATION
#8: GENETICALLY/MODIFIED ORGANISM/PSYCHIC LABEL "TRASH"
#9: FARM-RAISED SO TO SPEAK/BUT WHERE SUB-URBAN FACADES/SPIRAL OUT CONTROL
#10: GENETICALLY/MANIFESTING DUST & ME/ORGANIC DIRTGOD
extension cord to camper
runs through uninhabited
lands not waste but feral

Saturday, November 28

all that is left is fragments;
creating patchwork fractal
philosophy for my soul

Friday, November 27

dark face of religions when
a prophet's open-heart words
become close-fisted dogma
earth reclamation project -
mycology rehabbing
psycho logical issues

Thursday, November 26

"appropriating" culture
while influenced by culture
while creating new culture

Wednesday, November 25

alcoholic trash blossoms
like mushroom spores along paths
following river highways
silly buddha said to me
"knock knock"; "who's there"; "orange"; "orange who";
“orange you glad we’re suffering”