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Birthright
The true scale of the machine That ponderous maw Open, out underneath us Under the sand and the weight I saw the black skies Light up...

Paul Clive
May 21 min read
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The King in Red
The King in Red Even in Arcadia Amidst such hallowed meadows Such guarded pastures Such simple days These mournful measures Morbid tunes...

Paul Clive
Apr 111 min read
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Saturated
Wolfing down Lapping up Hungry maw Open cup O'er flowing Tangle foot Brambles broken Tied in knots Roots below Sky above Crying out...

Paul Clive
Apr 71 min read
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III
Trending towards a kind of darkness Towards a sickness cyclical Advertised with slickness cynical A vision miserable before our eyes A...

Paul Clive
Mar 112 min read
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Hush
Migratory stories linger
Across memories of a flowered love
Not possessed of any human being
But a fire like plutonium

Paul Clive
Jan 182 min read
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PEMDAS
Unequivocally I need your touch Your love Your lust Inhale me In burning lungs Soaring eyes Let me be lost Layered up Break my bones...

Paul Clive
Jan 51 min read
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Garden in the Dark
When I bury my own needs and my own feelings to try to keep the peace I am left feeling like a ghost.

Paul Clive
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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Lego
Mealy-mouthed sub-optimal consumer Filled with a black bile tar heart Feathers fringed tinged dark with fear Red and Green with envy All...

Paul Clive
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Salem's Lot
Open up
Dysfunctional
Sacred devils and
Fallen angels
Wounded beasts
Healing heads
Rising oceans and
Hurricanes

Paul Clive
Nov 22, 20241 min read
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Unmake Me Now
Unmake me In darkness discreet In sacred shadow In secret flames Undone Punctuated breaths Reaching equilibrium Between life and death...

Paul Clive
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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A Funeral For All Mankind
I pocketed the devil's dice And looked out upon uneasy streets Where people ran like rivers Into the deep dystopian weeds Slow burned and...

Paul Clive
Sep 19, 20242 min read
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Tired Earth
A naked dread
Silently built
Preternaturally indwelt
But seldom understood

Paul Clive
Sep 16, 20241 min read
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Ezekiel
Uplifted wings of living beings
Creatures turned again like wheels
Folded spaces, in-betweens
Spun like webs where thunder reels

Paul Clive
Aug 8, 20241 min read
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A New Creation
Out of that cryogenic sleep The first sentient thought was one of hunger Gnawing and unnerving in its depth An untraceable urge The thick...

Paul Clive
Jul 14, 20241 min read
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Consumed
Consumed Hazel blooms of arcing thunder Level me in awestruck wonder Bought and paid for by her touch Sinking in and swallowed up...

Paul Clive
Jun 20, 20242 min read
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Goddess Redefined
Bring me a horizon
Made of sunsets and of sin
And make for me an altar
To lay me down again

Paul Clive
May 29, 20241 min read
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The Bootstrap
I have built this place to get to her. Projected her like a shadow on my wall. A memory, a ghast, a shade, a thought. And from the fire...

Paul Clive
May 20, 20242 min read
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All That's Left
Press me between pages
Open like a book
Turn me into fire light
With nothing but a look

Paul Clive
May 15, 20241 min read
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Squirm
Let the crickets dance and chirp They rise and writhe and squirm And click and kick In the depths of the pit When from the depths I...

Paul Clive
May 3, 20242 min read
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Vermilion
Bring it down Like fire on my tongue In places deeper Oblivion Vermilion In velvet flames Dancing darkness Invading veins Colors running...

Paul Clive
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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