Resurrecting Ravens by Edward Cates and Anna Cates

A large tree in the middle of green woodland. Large white text reads: Resurrecting Ravens. Smaller text reads: Discussing disabled characters in fairy tales and folklore.

My lover is a graverobber
I recall the taste of icy kisses
As the moonlight slithers slowly
Down porcelain smooth features  
Winds tousle iridescent plumage
And her eyes are always burning
Shining out of the plutonian void
Binary stars blazing in darkness
Her terrible gravity dragging me
Upward from the sepulchral void
Rousing me from my baleful repose
To mount up and fly like she flies
My heartbeat, the cadence of wings
Bearing me up like a chthonic dream
A caliginous angel soaring skyward
Raven wings beating down the sky
For her voice has beckoned me
I rise and join her murder
 
twilight . . .
the melancholy color
of complicity

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NOTE: Unitalicised text is the work of Edward Cates. Italicised text is the work of Anna Cates. ​

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About the authors:
The late Edward Dana Cates (2/23/69-11/12/23) was a disabled househusband and writer/poet from Seymour, Indiana.  He attended George Fox University and served on Deviant Art’s literature committee, where he acquired many mutual fans and friends.  The original versions of his poems are fully illustrated a viewable at his online gallery:  https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/gallery.

Dr. Anna Cates teaches writing, literature, and education online and has published a variety of books (poetry, fiction, and drama) through www.cyberwit.net, prolificpress.com, redmoonpress.com, and wipfandstock.com.  Her full-length poetry collection, Love in the Time of Covid, won an Illumination Book Award.  She resides in Wilmington, Ohio with her two cats.