New Poetry by Peter Venable

Slow Motion 

A shadow sliding on an afternoon wall is slow 

Slow is glass flowing in colonial houses 

A sixty month stretch at Riker’s is slow 

Slow is squeezing an ice cube until it melts 

A food line at a refugee camp is slow 

Slow is a man on his walker at the Y indoor track 

A kidney stone squeezing through a duct is slow 

Slow is seven cycles of chemotherapy 

A dusk to dawn vigil in candlelit sanctuary is slow 

Slow is 21,600 seconds skewered on a cross

- Peter Venable 2016

Peter Venable, the author has written poetry for over 50 years and some are inspired out of (his) "monsters of the Id", a Forbidden Planet line.