Long Millimeter Poems

She headed up the stairs                    
as John closed the front door,
heading out for the evening run.
She...

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The guy that talked a chubby boy such as I out of the fear of removing my shirt in the sight of 
others
The one that saved me  from the torture of  bullying from...

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Motherland…

I am a desert, barren and hot.
Hoping for the rain, which I forgot.
Once, I was green, golden, and bright.
Nightingales singing night after night.
My fresh breeze at dawn was ever nice,
Showered me blossoms like paradise.
Year after...

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in a room laced with gloom 
his beats boom he dreams of wreckin' the mike
his momma's home she's alone 
a sad song she struggles she fights
his lil' sis' is quite a miss 
but them fives...

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Matthew's latest blank key

Impossible mission, nevertheless
I take figurative aim
to craft poem without
experiencing wrathful blame
avoiding explicitly, ignominiously, specifically...
referencing mine heterosexual counterpart
that infamous she,

whom did ruthlessly claim
yours truly as her husband
snatching mine happy
go lucky bachelorhood
two dozen plus...

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All About Cake-Alleya Joy Kolar March 2016

She looked at it like it was a masterpiece.
It looked as if someone had spent their lifetime on it.
A lifetime so dedicated to every absolute Crumb,
To every bite of...

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Age old wisdom scarred not flamed. A dozen baked bees in an hour glass perturbed. And left undisturbed as a minotaur sunbathing on a single blade of grass on a sixty acre lawn. At dusk....

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Age old wisdom scarred not flamed. A dozen baked bees in an hour glass perturbed. And left undisturbed as a minotaur sunbathing on a single blade of grass on a sixty acre lawn. At dusk....

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Blade so thin
   you don't feel it slice,
      until it's carving away a piece of you.
With every millimeter 
    exposed to air
   ...

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Pouring milk teeth onto a tea cup silence,

rasping over ceramic furroughs -

a harvest of unborn cries -

she shudders into the hollow of a throat 

she can’t escape.

She’s already shrouded, 

tapestries and bed-sheets and fences and...

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Here’s an interesting fact about the color of our skin:
the section that holds the color is unusually thin.

I imagine to our creator…it was a snap…a finger flick
making the section with our pigment only a millimeter...

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Days after the surgery I was not myself.
A millennium of stuttering expeditions
through metallically gleaming brain-tunnels
illuminated by a flickering
sixteen millimeter movie camera
shuttered my wandering soul.

The hospital was empty
except for one pretty nurse, and a few
demented ghosts---their...

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My love is black widow spun
Got a red hourglass abdomen,
and a deadly sac of emotional poison

Don’t let my eight millimeter eyes
zoom it’s spider focus on you
Or my Daddy long-legged slender fingers
will digitally creep closer to...

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I am concerned with the structures that sustain the universe, 
with the mighty river of time, 
the tablature and the compass of souls 
dispersed in their endless penances, 
the enigmatic smile of doubts 
overlapping the...

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I recall writing checks in my spidery crawl.
The TV then was a humming spaceship
with glowing innards that deep-scanned 
all who glued their flickering, bug-eyed minds to it;
it abducted whole families at a time.
That same television
materialized...

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Pondering God’s Power

Here on this much  less 
than a millimeter speck of space, 
I imagine 
the shape and size
of my soul, the depth
of my growing soul
held in God’s hands
and the astounding sight
it must take...

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I sabotaged my eight-millimeter childhood.
I never knew Sartre
But I contorted my latex face,
Burying my nothingness in family films.
My child was scripted to be ugly, skipped over
In comic relief.

Only recognizable as Menoetius, 
My only animation was...

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I write to take the pain away
Releasing heartache
Not allowing it to meditate
Not allowing it to penetrate
Triggering unwanted emotions
That create the notions
That cause me to hate
Or hold malice
Malicious thoughts taint the soul
Tamper the spirit
So I write...

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The Disastrous Traffic Stop

By Elton Camp

To pull over quickly Robert didn’t fail 
Just as soon as he saw a cop on his tail
“Sir, you exceeded the speed limit, I fear.
That is the reason I pulled...

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This is fabricated evidence of love
Forged reports of a representative that cares

We are stripped of our skins
Chernobyl lingers in the backdrop
Stretches his mutated ligaments to reach us
Barely a millimeter apart

They're already larger than life and...

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Don’t ask, my friend,

How much of His breath our Lord 

Has breathed into each of us*

If a cubic millimeter it is

Or

A cubic decimeter,

For it doesn't matter at all

Since HE is infinite,

And the infinite divided by...

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Babies with empty bellies
go hungry, 
every refugee day
While numerical chambers
of alphabet soup weaponry
are fully stocked
War rations 
on collateral display

AK-47
50-cal RPG’s
M-16
9 millimeter Beretta,
45-Uzi
1911-380 Browning
Mac-10 semi-auto magazine

Military grade A munitions
fill the land
with walking dead bodies desiccated,
full of...

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Who Pulls The Trigger


The degree of difficulty diminishes
conscience and justice dim
the fog of zealous denial.
A trigger is squeezed
each millimeter
an agony
each millisecond
a lifetime.

Sharp recoil awakens reality
SCAN QUICKLY TO SLOWY
ACQUIRE TARGET, RESIGHT
resist the pressure
of the trigger
resist the...

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When she picked up her first gun,
she felt sheer exhilaration
When she took the first shot,
she felt supreme elation
She craved caressing the cold power
in her hand
She loved pressing the trigger
again and again
Metal orgasm was better than...

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My beloved Coroline, 
her spirit lies in myrtle grove ;
shrouded in white, 
no inch , or millimeter does she move,
Oh my sweet Coroline.

My beloved Coroline, 
Forgotten if I were to be, in agony so dire
to...

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