Clive Culverhouse Poems

The splash changed the course of the universe
as the fish startled in his round of the pond.
Why are you here? asked the fish.
I fell in, cried the rat, wearing water he donned.
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all at sea, my restive heart
waters are calm, but in calmness
moored
the bounty of a lover's soliloquy
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grabs a hat from the hatstand
fraught, he warps the midday sun
no apricating mellow touch
in haste, too early a venture
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you speak your promises in tongues
how can I not trust a tongue that licks
ice cream on airy beaches gorged
with holiday; crepuscular living
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being watched
by eyes over there
over there
where the eyes are not
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so I, the riddle

of my own confoundedness
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this is my slope
some of it I was given
some of it I made
I've faced both ways
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it's an endless void of emptiness
in a starkness filled with play
it's a synonym of every dream
in an antonym yet to try
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the universe exists
to give humans a backstory
- no humans, no universe
it's all heads
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one sugar in his tea
just like me
shoes double knotted
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