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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


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


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


Tired Earth
A naked dread
Silently built
Preternaturally indwelt
But seldom understood

Paul Clive
Sep 16, 20241 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


At the Gates
I build my kingdom Out of all of these mistakes I steel my nerves for The coming of day All these reserves for The war that approaches...

Paul Clive
Feb 13, 20241 min read


Elysium
A machine-man brought to life. Built in a world submerged. Industrial. Used. But brought to life by something unexpected. The spark, like...

Paul Clive
Jan 26, 20241 min read


Petrichor
Vines on tongues Torrent thorns Tearing skin And wearing bones Gathering storms Petrichor Tasting thunder's Endless roar Bridge to...

Paul Clive
Dec 23, 20231 min read


Clockwork Gardens
Perhaps there is no elephant No deeper truth No sacred whole No big picture No forest, only trees Wisdom an illusion No belly and no...

Paul Clive
Dec 7, 20231 min read


A Deeper Harvest
I prefer the dirt and the darkness Hidden under, hunched Buried in freshly fallen leaves By the pit I'm swallowed up Elder things of...

Paul Clive
Nov 8, 20231 min read
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[SIGNAL LOST]
Hanging heavy Cities of grace Swirling everything Warming empathy Swarming enemy Intersecting apathy Anathema still within Writhing in...

Paul Clive
Oct 27, 20231 min read


Towers and Toadstools
TOWERS AND TOADSTOOLS Threshed inside the rushes Pressed together, sold Buried in the brier patch Tangled, towering, old Flowers against...

Paul Clive
Oct 24, 20232 min read


Vampire's Kiss
Brought before the elders Anchored here Seeking the vampire's kiss Chained by fragments of lust Abrasive diamonds Burning agony inhaled by lungs A self-inflicted poison Toxic Taken in micro-doses With eyelids shut and heart open Aching Tied to a barren future Erosion splits those atoms Delineating truths With resonance cascading Schrodinger's remorse Guiltless Beguiled by a shelter still refused Now dwelling in shadows past Remembering Old Fezziwig and dance With delicate occ

Paul Clive
Oct 2, 20231 min read
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