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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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Tired Earth
A naked dread
Silently built
Preternaturally indwelt
But seldom understood
Paul Clive
Sep 16, 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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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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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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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
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a devil and a crone
set for liftoff get these machine parts moving right these wrongs reset these bones somehow eldritch someone silent something wicked this...
Paul Clive
Aug 22, 20231 min read
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Fever Pitch Witching Hour
Fever Pitch Fever pitching Voices rising Season for Witching Toiling, boiling, brewing Klaxons blaring, houses burning Stirred up all...
Paul Clive
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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Ingredients
Sometimes we mix ourselves a potion of memory and regret and find ourselves wondering what might have been. There is something a bit like...
Paul Clive
Sep 8, 20222 min read
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A Pilgrim's Doubt
Moon-dripped reflections Fallen from favor The weight on these shoulders Still gazing at navels Plucking at strings In ivory chambers, I...
Paul Clive
Aug 30, 20222 min read
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Moth Man
Legend. Sometimes our feelings can seem so meaningless in the grand scheme of things. We aren't taken seriously, our voices aren't heard,...
Paul Clive
Jul 3, 20221 min read
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Beneath Black Skies
Here at the end of all things... Let It All Be Undone A ponderous ocean of cosmic canyons Cavernous crags reaching toward infinity Never...
Paul Clive
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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The Dragon's Gold
The Dragon's Gold Along the dragon's back Down by the verdant steppe Binaural stones that skip Across river's deep and black A...
Paul Clive
May 14, 20222 min read
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No Fooling
Being honest with ourselves can be hard, especially in the age of social media where lies are mass marketed to us constantly. Is faking...
Paul Clive
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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Monsters in Margins
We're off the edge of the map, Jack Of Monsters and Margins Off the edge of the map Where monsters are in the margins The devils in the...
Paul Clive
Feb 19, 20222 min read
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Observation
If there's anything physics teaches us it's that the very act of measuring something, of observing it, of discovery itself, changes...
Paul Clive
Jan 7, 20222 min read
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Autumn's Bliss
The weather is finally shifting, the Summer finally coming to a close. They say it is a time of transitions, of endings and of new...
Paul Clive
Oct 18, 20212 min read
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