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.

Sunday, December 11

rusty metal barrel with
twenty-five caliber dents,
filled with rocks for field training

Saturday, December 10

space orb light as filtered through
earthen atmosphere creates
sexy backlight for nude trees
green pokeberry bursting forth
from gaia pink stem, against
blue sky’s overhead backdrop

Friday, December 9

huge industrial mosques built
to gross CapitAllah, our
master of forced destiny

TOP TEN PROOFS OF ZEROTUDE


#1: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(D33P GR33N R3S1ST4NC3)
#2: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(SP1R1TL3SS R34L L1F3)
#3: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(GL0B4L D1SS 0RD3R)
#4: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(SVM THINGZ M0M3NT0VS)
#5: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(N0TH1NG'S F0R3V3R)
#6: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(CR33P B3N34TH L1K3 V1N3Z)
#7: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(D33P GR33N P3RS1ST3NC3)
#8: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(F3RM3NT1NG R3V0LT)
#9: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(GVT-H34RT-M1ND VN10N)
#10: 0 x 0/x 0 = 0/(SVPR3M3 M4TH-M4T1X)

TOP TEN GRAPPLING BEZELS OF TEH YUNG SHEIKH


#1: R3L1G10VS TR4NC3S/TRVMP P0L1T1C4L Z0MB13S/- 3L3CT TH3 43TH3R
#2: 1MM0R4L 3TH1CS/L4VND3R3D THRV L3G4L1T13S/- N0 C0VRT 1S SVPR3M3
#3: J1H4D 4L-4KB4R/M3D1T1T10NS VP0N D33P/M0VNT41N M0SQV3 1N F4LL
#4: G3T L1FT3D M0R4SS/F0R M00R 4SS WR3TCH3D E4RTH3N/4C0ST4N Z3T4
#5: PR4Y T0 TH4T 34ST3RN/SVNR1S3 4S T3MPL3 D4RKN3SS/G3TS L1T - S0L4R SH1N3
#6: 4LL PR4YS T0 34ST/B0W3D H34D T0VCH3S 4CTV4L/PVR1FY1NG D1RT
#7: D33DS B3 N0T L3G4L/PR00FS 3X1ST F0R 0V3RL0RDS/- 1'M F1RMLY L0W3R3D
#8: 1 M3D1T4T3/W1TH SP1N3 4L1GN3D T0 WH1T3 04K/3Y3S P01NT3D 1NW4RD
#9: T3CT0N1CS 3R3CTS/M0R3 4NC13NT M00R 4SS M0ST-H1GH/M0SQV3S & 0R4CL3S
#10: N0T Y3T SH31KH W1LDB1RD/ST1LL S1TT1NG ST1LL STVDY1NG/TH3S3 C0RV1D QV4TR41NS
cultivate artisanal
pokeberry ink for writing
fresh poison constitutions
all your emails data-scanned,
all your search terms indexed, with
red flags when necessary

Thursday, December 8

dollar store satanism
sigils litter the compound's
scrabbled-together landscape
New York City back-and-forth
right quick-like for no reason
other than I’m bored as fuck

Wednesday, December 7

seeking guidance from above
(maybe metaphysical,
but honestly I don’t know)
ten-year-old crumpled atlas
remains my road guide, with blood
stains all over Tennessee

Tuesday, December 6

heart militant like kudzu -
constant growth remains unseen,
in every direction

freestyle sonnet #063: ODE TO TRUE NATURE OF HUMAN SELF DENIED THIS MORNING

Felt compelled this morning to listen to the crows,
crazy cawwing from cold country woods, but Work called.
Wanted to sit idle, watch grey skies as front blows
through, clouds shifting until new weather patterns stalled

and heavens drip half-frozen rain. Wanted to watch oaks
stand there, growing beyond my own recognition,
naked fingers outstretched. Needed to smell fire smokes - 
cedar, scrub pine, and scrap wood combined emission

from sanctified pit I ought to sit around more
often, but Work's always calling, living detached
from natural roots, focused on what's in-store,
fastened to unsustainable future, mismatched

from what "me" is at heart. Heart ignored because Work's
calling; but knowing learned ways are false always lurks.
sloth is an extreme form of
lounging which involves complete
abandonment of doing
elders once spoke of lessons
learned; when the young are old
civilization is fucked

Monday, December 5

microscoping Colossus
of Roads railroad Earth poems,
but our lines don’t seem to cross

freestyle sonnet #062: THROWAWAY LITERAL FREESTYLE SONNET UTILIZING RIFF RAFF CAPITALIZATION TECHNIQUES

HEART PUMPS TENSiON MUSCLE, WHOLE EARTH STRESS & STRUGGLE,
JUGGLE DEMON FiNANCE, MiND DEDUCiNG FRACTiONS,
GUT iNTUiTiNG MORE, MiCROFLORA SMUGGLE
ANCiENT TRADiTiONAL UNSEEN DEEP GREEN ACTiONS,

RESiSTANCE TO GRiDLOCK, DiRT QUARTZiTE PLANET ROCK,
UNSUSTAiNED AFTERSHOCK FROM HYDRO-FRACTURED BREAKS,
ALGORiTHMiC HOT TAKES DiVEST HUMAN LiVESTOCK
FROM DESTiNiES MANiFESTED FOR ABSTRACT STAKES.

DEMONiC LiZARD SNAKE PEOPLE TiE-AND-SUiTED
ORDER MiLiTARiZED BOOTS TO COLLECTiVE THROATS;
GRiMACE FACE SEiZES STARS, UNDERNEATH DEEP-ROOTED
REAL WORLD WEB EMPOWERS - GREAT LORDED BANKNOTE GLOATS,

BUT i DENY i, AND iNVEST BRAiNTRUST TO US,
iNVEST FiST-THRUST TO US, REBUiLD SHARED iNNATE TRUSS.
Railroad Time signaled go as
recalibration began;
we stole needed groceries

Sunday, December 4

commercial-industrial
wasteland landscape looking like
apocalypse at twilight
keep the window cracked in bad
weather just enough to let
cool air circulate to heart
summer mullein memories
as I hack at blackened stalks
with just-sharpened machete

Saturday, December 3

propaganda radio
waves hovering close to earth's
surface; solar overrides

TOP TEN "AS AMERICAN AS" WOW SUPER HARD PWNZ


#1: as American/as high fructose corn syrup/arteries scarred shut
#2: as American/as strip mall falafel from/immigrant's deli
#3: as American/as pre-Columbian towns/unseen by pale eyes
#4: as American/as expensive insurance/being called "health care"
#5: as American/as lesser of two evil/choices picked with pride
#6: as American/as "working hard or hardly/working" questions asked
#7: as American/as no fucks given corvids/picking through garbage
#8: as American/as demolition of hoods/being called progress
#9: as American/as refinancing newness/through dark abstractions
#10: as American/as exceptional facade/high gloss in thick fog