The River Poem by Clive Culverhouse
The River
life -
where buildings, buses
seem browner, grainy,
in their mottled haze,
an out-of-sync sun
in staggered lines;
the world wobbles
perhaps soon,
fish passing by
can be people
The River by Clive Culverhouse
I fell an important line here is 'the world wobbles', the river flowing makes the world appear to wobble and to the person looking down at it, also with depression, the world has wobbled, often catastrophically, at the very least debilitatingly.
When we look into a river and see a reflection of the world, is it a glimpse of how we think the world is or how we want it to be?
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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8/28/2026 3:05:16 PM # rel_20260827T145718Z_a0f1bd3
'out of sync sun' refers to turning days into night, typical with mental illness. 'staggering lines' again the mismanaged days, but it's how the sun appears in a river...