Category: Reclamation

A Return To Innocence, Featured Artists, Reclamation

Wild Geese By Mary J. Oliver

Candid Corvid Productions

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Reclamation, Songs

“Back Up Girl” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs – June 12, 2026

I’ll be your back up singer

Come at beck and your call

I’ll take your mind on siesta

While I’m givin’ my all

I’ll be your bar room maiden

Pick you up when you fall

But I won’t stand by waitin’

Without gettin’ a call

And if you’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’

I’m the one they can’t beat

And if it’s romance that you’re needin’

Sweep you off of your feet

But if it’s time you’re a’ wastin’

Shakin’ white as a sheet

There’ll be no love that we’re makin’

Without heat for your feet

And when the stars are a-risin’

After daylight has set

Your keepin’ eyes on horizon

Lookin’ for that sure bet

I’m worth the risk you’ll be takin’

Bet you can’t wait n’ see

“Cause babe they’ll be no forsakin’

When you’re here next to me

So get your back up baby

Yeah get up off of that seat

I’ll be your back up baby

A life with me’s really neat

So lift your chin up honey

‘Cause I’ve got a nice treat

It’s what you’ve dreamed of darlin’

Ain’t nobody like me

I’ll get your back up baby

So get your back up baby

Yeah step on back up honey

I’ve got your clover luck love

Set aside just for you

Ain’t no one else above

Just saved for you

From Heaven above

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A Return To Innocence, A Woman's Plight, Reclamation

A Boost Of Joy

Candid Corvid Productions

“My wolf, who got hit by seizures caused by a new flea medication, and then crippled-weak limbs from time-release anti-seizure medication – all while I had to manage our moving – this evening has officially shown rebounding by my efforts to help her.

I had taken her off of all medications to let her system clear out, and just monitored her for recurrent bladder infections.

And even though she is now muchly blind from thick cataracts, she is learning how to get stronger going up and down stairs, and our brief potty break walks several times a day have been acting as her physical therapy routines.

Tonight, she actually bounded about and was happily panting while gracefully trotting on our walk!

And she and the hound got into some brief zoomies around me together – and I laughed as I went after them to playfully grab tails, and we all got big smiles on our faces!”