Best Crawlspace Poems

I’ve been trying to suppress it—
Haven’t you noticed? 
There’s a pulse inside that must stay inside
There’s a crawlspace where I keep you as mine

I’ve been...

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Liquid stars drip to a sparkle,
look up take a sip get your fill;
Peek out of your crawlspace;

Constellations and chaos cross
feeding poets with wishing sauce;
Eager to...

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Up and wide awake at three AM
  some creature in the attic once again.
Running, tapping, chewing on the wood
  that can't be good.
I...

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Dust motes swirled a pirouette, ponderous stardust 
in the light shaft capture, straight as a die; 
fired to my chest from the crack in the...

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe," ... Carl Sagan

Subtle crafts soundly, using euphemisms,
yet cluelessness dealt...

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Hollow place, crawlspace, where no emotion returns alive,

Broken or calloused, which shall it be, if I had the choice to make

And what is darkness to...

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Bright, early light slithered into the crawlspace.
Something woke there under the dusty rafters.
Stars in its eyes and cotton in its mouth.

Nothing yet stirring, save for...

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Why am I here? Not existentially
but literally why am I here in the
crawlspace. "Why are any of us
here?" Woh! Who are you
people?...

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Did it irk the burrowing domain, 
A crawlspace lit like pumpkin pie,
And prick a truly genius brain,
Till thoughts and deeds solidify?
Sanctimonious in a sewage vat
That...

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The House of Snakes

By Elton Camp

Snakes!  They slithered here and hid there
And inside the house—how did they dare?
The new owners thought they found a...

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Sunlight entered the aquamarine potting shed from the east
Beating the master gardener by a few minutes or steps
Ruffled marigold seeds were waiting to be planted...

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now is glare caged and pasted dry 
where once wet opened drapery skin so wide
 
moments stubble the truth even as it chews
on dreams stored...

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That unshared secret…
a crawlspace of denial
where shadows keep your heart at bay,
lonely all the while

To hide in darkened corners,
as falsehood lends its smile
your mind left...

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If there'd be a crawlspace big enough for
a mouse to fit through, it will be no worth
for measured do one pleasure of a dearth
will be...

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