Category: Reclamation

A Return To Innocence, Reclamation, Songs

“That Man” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

That man loves me
For once it’s real

That man loves me
With a heart of steel

You never know they’d say
With a jeer unconcealed

But that man’s worth
Is beyond repeal

And if you say
We haven’t got a chance

If you’d argue
Our circumstance

Well then friends you
Haven’t learned a thing

Of what makes a woman Queen
And a Man her King

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Elden sass upon verdant grass melodies

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A Woman's Plight, Reclamation, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

I Wonder

Candid Corvid Productions

“Perhaps I am entering some kind of acceleration effects on certain – and maybe many – levels.

For so long, I was just swollen and puffy no matter how I worked to reconnect and regain tonal tension.

But playing out the idea that one day it can all click, this might be shifting.”

A Man's Journey, A Return To Innocence, Elden Ways, Featured Artists, Myths & Legends, Reclamation

(Stars – Eriks Esenvalds, Oregon Repertory Singers)

Candid Corvid Productions

Dr. Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
Lisa Riffel, Assistant Conductor & Choir Manager
Naomi LaViolette, Accompanist

David Peterson, Producer & Editor

Stars
Music: Ä’riks EÅ¡envalds
Lyrics: Sara Teasdale

Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still

And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;

Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;

Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still

And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty

A Woman's Plight, Reclamation, The Crone

The Crone In Me

Candid Corvid Productions

She’d been fighting off the crone since the moment she’d been abandoned in her fourties.

It had jeered at her in stark contrast to her youth’s vitality, attempting to hard-interfere with her plans to remarry.

Then all of that fell apart and the accident pushed her hard onto another track – which she’d been striving toward, anyway.

But as she applied makeup to her war-torn fascial contours and saw how the ravages of pain’s suffering tried to mold and reshape her to their designations, a peace began calming.

Maybe that bitch had had her reasons.

Maybe she’d been trying to ensure she’d meet the right man, in the right season.

Reclamation, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

ReCalculating

Candid Corvid Productions

“If hip joints are being twist-pulled forward and out away from structural stability due to over-torque tension in the quadraceps, will lower abdominal restrengthening pull back and tighten the sheaths that should wrap tight the capsules – or will this just increase the overall load?”