" Right-of-Way "...

" Right-of-Way "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Right-of-way mouths agape in amazement
while climbing steep embankments
with hackles raised across snow-weighted landscapes
further complicating fog-forming exhalations
of purple-gray colorations grievously clouded behaviors
sailing black ravens light disintegrating slipping sideways
into silence bristling dry spires atop icy mountainsides...

" Siblings Still "...

" Siblings Still "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Siblings still
like dynamic mixes
of inching differences

awkwardly fitting
memories re-written
into overall incoherence

as gifts of the vividly
effortless momentum
slipping into timeless realms

of vilifying freshness
successor after successor
" Ready, set, GO !!! "

" Buffeted"...

" Buffeted "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Buffeted by doubt
confronting scalpers
after lifting sanctions
and feeling rattled
by racks and racks
of reading glasses
for straphangers

searching for answers
in living labs
of bachelor pads
beneath steel canopies
by analysts of branding

like glamorous
contractors of fantasy
minus exaggeration
by the puritanical
during nights-of-flash
categories for Grammy fashions

based on heroes of the past
and mega-selling soundtracks
empowering underclasses
sprinkled with white hairs
from deepening musicalities
while ripping off the veil
with grippingly imaginative
striking detail...

" Smoke and Haze "...

" Smoke and Haze "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Smoke and haze
headlights blazing
sobering
glowing red coals

giving up control
racing up slopes
unsteady drones
coming and going
faster and slower

smoldering
burrowing
gurglings
hissings

sprinklings
splatterings
stirring of ashes
spring plantings
sinking back

buckets in hand
on human scales
of biomasses
pace and gallop
places of absence

in between rounds
deep-seated valleys
wavering candles

migratory animals
hoofs and tracks
blankets of ash
gravel and sand...

" Quiet Confidence"...

" Quiet Confidence "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Quiet
confidence
instinctual
knowledge

living on
with seamless
calmness
across vaster
continents 

pre-conceivably
interlocking 
primary responses 

nonchalance
protected
and honored 

sparking gray ash
and black char
snowy blossoms 

innumerable parts
internal clocks
solstice equinox

pale scars
smoke
columns...

" Underplayed "...

" Underplayed "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Underplayed
and overlooked
in changed worlds
of excerpted versions
converging as concerns
where chaos is immersive

measured by ephemeral art works
donning blue oxford cloth shirts
like well-deserved caricatures
left on back burners

anonymously anomalous
statues prototyped from scrap
grander and grander
passed hand-over-hand
in non-stop action

radically charismatic
hurricane ravaged
attraction and abandon
coming out of nowhere
as unexamined damage...

" Outsized " ...

" Outsized "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Outsized
rapid-fire
nail biting

opportunities rising
via quiet investing
giants on the sly

too distracted
to write
in defiance

growing tedious
at times feeling
disenfranchised

upon being
beautifully
unrealized

but still
kept in mind
by place drivers

while logging
jungles
and planting rice

transforming
civic life
with pandemic cycles

plus panicky headlines
being stockpiled
by ill advisors

stoically sitting
on the sidelines
depicting holding scythes

along turning
tides
on receding shorelines...

" Stuck " ...

" Stuck "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Stuck in a rut
inseparable 
yet unintendedly 
reconnected 
promotional contents

renewed senses of selves
feeling better overwhelmingly 
edited and condensed
via reversed trends

in need of heavily inked 
modernity and short-sleeved 
tees as the next big thing 
consigned to the B-team
since antiquity

new and used materials 
concocted powdery 
reshaped boundaries 
worked figuratively 
like all-terrain vehicles

tannish green
smokey cloudy
bridging mediums
tinted or clear 
tempered tendencies 
of cursive writing

in pigment
and graphite 
old-style
poke-and-scratch
as purely practical 
tattooed thousands 
earning crowns 
of anti-status
watered down...

" Common Calls "...

" Common Calls "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Common calls
getting 
louder and louder
straighter on average
along edges 
of shallow still ponds

head-bobbing throngs
flushing raucous
purposefully walking
foraging 
paller overall 
belly-deep water

solitary spotted 
upslurred melodic
remarkably stocky
upon feeding 
on grasshoppers
buffy bodies
Marbled Godwits...

" Many Doubts "...

" Many Doubts "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Many doubts
steering 
The White House"
via radically
shaped policies
claiming
extreme measures
are needed

chest-thumping
acceptance
speeches eliciting
blacklisting 
and jeering 

emoting tell-tale
vulnerability 
when moussed hair
is unbecomingly clumped

"All done 
Makeup
Close up"
Ending up
with a villainous,
"Dum-de-dum-dum DUM!"...

" A Rare Visitor "...

" A Rare Visitor "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

A rare visitor 
uncommon 
and declining

prolonged whining
seen flying 
tail-banded juveniles

plumage blackish 
and white 
unfalconlike

explosive 
loudly rising
sharper and higher 

dark markings 
around eyes
rocky hillsides 

silent nesting sites
untidy 
wavering lines

wings 
spread
to dry...

" In the Process of Starting "...

" In the Process of Starting "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

In the process of starting 
eventually moving on
once having wandered
both near and far

as orange
and black
checkerspots 
of old forests

standing out starkly
against a single 
yellow blossom 
down the marsh 

left unacknowledged 
from mountain tops
of gold-and-bronze
angles and arcs
glass-clad rocky 

Bohemian waxwings
spreading hawkweed 
cliff-side seeps 

butterfly colonies
camouflaging wings
wild strawberries 

heat lightning 
igniting dry
pine needles

spreading
apocryphally 
remaining zeniths
obsidian apogees...

" Givers and Recipients "...

" Givers and Recipients "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Givers and recipients
bubbling liquid
alien whisperers
requesting permission 

mineral chimneys
moon beams
below freezing 

crystal-clear 
meteorite origins
via intrinsic collisions 

silent ravens winging
spires of giant evergreens
evening grosbeaks
bobolinks in alder trees

blazing poppy fields
luscious orange 
skittering sparks
leapfrogging...

" Roll-Out Fall-Out "...

" Roll-Out Fall-Out "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Roll-out fall-out
collateral damage
"No Wall No Ban"

slapdash grave actions 
behind shatter-resistant
glass almost daily 

either being canceled
or curtailed while lauding,
" La La Land "

awarded warts and all
polygraphs for short 
as treasure vaults 
for inner cores 

drawing deafening applause
needles bouncing back and forth 
like homecomings of sorts

making points voicing 
grand choruses
of "Habeas Corpus"

coming to abrupt halts 
due to hoards and hoards
of voided passports 

settling scores 
suffering prolonged 
disorienting grief of loss

ruefully recalled
out of sorts
treacherous
border crossings 

colliding stories
waging war
redacted reports...

" Right Out Loud "...

" Right Out Loud "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Right out loud
whole valleys

swirling gusting
rowdily drawn out 

left scrambling 
like red-winged blackbirds

trilling seemingly at random
in tangled blow-down

above buried acquifers 
of silvery stubble 

onrushing continuums 
as the first trillium

perennial clumps
of native ground cover

just brazenly enough
one after another

after another 
via whorls of triumph...

" From Another Time "...

" From Another Time "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

From another time
possibilities re-combining
whether fresh or dried

not unusual to find
silk-threaded ties
leaf style

heaped into piles
above water lines
as guide wires

coming to mind
via shape and design
ash-fired-cast-iron

attracting butterflies
like brush-footed allies
with spotted undersides

while striped larvae
feed on violets
skeletonized

simultaneously
wonderous
and frightening

galvanizing spans of life
swelling and rising
shorelines at flood tide...

" In that Year "...

" In that Year "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

In that year
many millions
continuing 
inequitably 
conflicted 
within 
no centers
of opinion

special 
interests'
crises 
of spirit 
veering 
left 
wandering 
weakly 
upbeat

film-flammed 
masterfully 
like carefully
scripted nice-
guy images
of invulnerability 

seen flickering
on the big screen
as "not-exactly
intelligence failures
ignored and exacerbated
by, "I got your back!!"
via baton passing...

" Symmetry and Balance "...

" Symmetry and Balance "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Symmetry and balance
severed halves 
of a pear and an apple 
based solely on angles 

as subtle leanings
of asymmetry 
via swarming
chickadees 

chittering 
singing 
swarming 

flitting shadows
distracting 
cold black

dusk at last
backtracking 
mahogany antlers
made malleable 

pressed flat
little differences
of facts 
slow but powerful 
dynamics 

well within grasp 
seasons passing 
stems and branches

sometimes jagged 
beginning to crown
frost-spangled 
latticed passages
through plate glass

ripples splashing 
gauzy veils 
sweet air wiggle-tails...

" Breathing New Life "...

" Breathing New Life "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Breathing new life
minus explanations 
like, "Why?!"

post wild fires
charred browned
and caramelized

pyrotechnically inclined
dark genres 
taken down a notch 
as promised
via "Scorched-Earth"
policies

cooling economies 
overheating climates
while moving past and behind
faint patches of filtered sunlight

as textures of old buried things
revealed sharply and differently 
marveling at brute tenacity

melting drifts
trickling freely 
at slow speed
stirring breezes
dripping eaves 

circling eagles 
swans' whistling wings
halting cobalt mercury 
lichens sinking slightly 
under exile...

" The First Frog "...

" The First Frog "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

The first frog
spotted
thawing marshes

vernal marvels
croaking throbbing 
paying homage

atop rocks
of dim
consciousness 

upon summoning
thrush and bear cub
via poking-up crocus bulbs

lightly cleared throats
loon pairs yodeling
rich texture and varied tone 

while traveling home
endearing spring peepers 
beeping chickadees...

" More Than Enough "...

" More Than Enough "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

More than
enough
to make
a deep run
like pass
rushers
not letting up

posting results
over months
and months
of intense
discussions

made up
by bubbly
pundits
from parent
companies

costing
real bucks
for "all-
groan-ups"
becoming
somewhat
horror-struck

via automated
production
still unknown
to the public

while feeling
undone
depicted like
donkeys
grumbling
from down
under

looking
off color
stone-built
and sepulchral
as nothing but
monstrously
stirred-up
white dust...

" Mapping Out "...

" Mapping Out "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Mapping out meandering
non-combative tactics
like letters scrawled
across placards

wearing pink hats
and repeatedly chanting,
" We need long-term
health care plans!"

upon returning
to "Dela-where?"
incurring steep costs
of failed branding

after kicking the can
since unrests began
navigating multiple brands
with little impact

as part of pre-
programmed
rationale addressing
escapist fare

looking unembarrassed
after attempting to sell tracts
at a fraction of comparable value
via trig and calc gambling scams
ranting, "Shucks, you shouldn't have!"...

" Second Walks "...

" Second Walks "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Second walks by well-
proportioned stalwarts
of enormity while eyeing 
matchless symmetry

conferring dignity
vaulted in concrete 
sculptured in deep relief
eagle-winged imagery 

strains of sensibility 
sweet-smelling greens
serenity unspeakable 
hope and peace

via calming evenings 
of pictorial unity
sun-lit fields unfurling
vernal seed leaf motifs...

" Right in Front "...

" Right in Front "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Right in front
a rewilded gut
halting taking pills
for long-standing ills

getting better at ridding
everything that differs
via immune systems
that always win

theoretically
modernity-triggered
as no guarantees
for some kind of link
to bystanders as villains

at least by initially
winnowing the longings
for anomalous pronghorns

relating to our bodies
tending microbial gardens
fruits and nuts harvested

with farming
being seen
as a dark art--
yet persisting
regardless

while foraging
for trappings
of hunter-gatherers

at least in part
well-regarded
versus crackpot
knowledge passed on...

" Simply a Matter "...

" Simply a Matter "

by Suzán Jiván 
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Simply a matter 
of huge sums annually
seen as psychedelic patterns 
tiny and catchable 
in knapsacks and backpacks 

while traveling to distant planets
with peculiarities 
like the pollination of plants 
via enormous reproductive capacities 

minus checks and balances 
from scavengers of commercial value
often beautiful animals 
adding complicating factors

pictured from front to back
learning first hand
from almost everywhere 
well grasped minimal damage...

" Fresh "...

" Fresh "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Fresh to distinctive 
plucked leafs
practical simplicity 
scented and bricked 
histotical traditions

cut-tear-curl
fascinating
to observe 
tractor 
donkey-
backed 
loosely 
gathered
depending 
on class

uniformity
often by hand 
receiving areas
batch-by-batch 
via hair-raising 
switchbacks
of fueled passions

coming down
the mountain
as long-lasting 
delicate tasks 
finished in
the open air...

" A Cencor's Delight "...

" A Censor's Delight "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

A censor's delight
avoiding talks 
of personal sacrifice 
for overly reliant
kidders' cries
given the green light

like classy stripper vibes
incidentally clarified
via anxious rivals of all kinds
perversely gone silent 

unfulfillingly marginalized
while unsynchronized tweets fly
personified by commander-in-chiefs
gone entirely haywire via wire-
tapped data with oaths of complications

coming under investigation 
for theoretically telling destinations
hoping up curry favor 
far and away before fireworks displays

as denials of climate change 
disclosed under "enhanced interrogation"
for fur-traders' birth places
fittingly displayed over roaring fireplaces...

" Still Kicking "...

" Still Kicking "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Still kicking
in a rare collision
being sworn in
as less-than-thrilling flicks
of thoroughly convincing
yet fictional legitimacy 

while donning playlists 
from hard basics 
having lived through decades
of "playing it safe"
ankle deep in reigned-in claims

like former candidates
on Inauguration Day 
during once-buttoned-downed ages
answering via claims-to-fame
by exclaiming, "Don't be afraid!"

losing to "anchors away" 
during unarticulated 
once-savvy small business raves 
re-entering the fray as "fake"
with much at stake 

on a case-by-case basis
for felony tax evaders
along hacked campaign trails
slated for the following day...

" Unique and Complex "...

" Unique and Complex "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Unique
and complex
flexibility
viability
legitimacy

breaking 
continuity
no longer 
existing 

like partitionings
as history begins
from inside of a chrysalis 
for vast majorities
of inevitable bureaucracies

still clinging to their wings
as if from the beginning 
over lengthening odysseys 

yet being permitted to bear arms
all in avoidance of re-conquest
modeled on heavenly bodies
launched philosophically 
with little regard for theology

answering to the naïve 
couched in pronouncements
via narrowing alleys 
of electoral grandeur...

" Glitter in the Gloom "...

" Glitter in the Gloom "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Glitter in the gloom
for flirtatious
provocateurs

like the last human
to walk solely
with the man-in-the-moon

via long-haul routes
during booms
for bridging lunar futures

hell-bent tenors sing,
" Oh Sole Mio "
"what a beautiful thing
the gentle breeze"

tree-lined streets
evening moon beams
dashes apostrophes
random misspellings

deeply entailed
within memoirs grasps
arcanely grammatical
multinational glaring
castles in the air

through spy glasses
for voyeurs
while talking and laughing

being hemmed in by walks
having gone off campus
climbing windowless stairs

feeling all entranced
by organic matter
synthesizing plants
flattened green sacs

as no accident
blue-grren algae
tenacities of trees

hardy species
subterranean
ecologies...

" Fresh-Faced"...

" Fresh-Faced "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Fresh-faced
versus
black-draped
desolation
re-awakening
returning phrases
via heart-breaking
isolation

disseminating
spidery strangeness
into shady places
for gall makers
while at the apex
of over-grazed
leaf venation

disintegrating
into pebbly grays
being left in the wake
of food chains
assaulted by aphids
over acreages

carted away
likened to prairie remains
rich soils staying in place
throughout all-nighters
of nightmare maybes

resources rearranged
in cyberspace
heavy airs unveiled
as celebrated tales
rebroadcast
during happy hours
of streaming virtual reality
hands-on
lushly large-scale...

" Mysteries "...

" Mysteries "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Mysteries multiplying
dustily lighted
awkwardly intertwining
within the ranks of giants
via geysering goodbyes

blood-shot eyes
predatory archetypes
light-footed-
loosely-housed
theatricality
within bosoms
of families
as trappings
of disaster

generating jealousies
and inadequacies
like combatively
supernatural gangly
hangings around

being deemed,
 "lovingly campy"
covered in scales
doomsday dovetailings
burnings of candles...

" Examining Actions "...

" Examining Actions "

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Examining actions
physical barriers

robust data
dark and trapped

racked inhabitants
as staple of the scary

felt years after
with no easy answers

being fueled by sadnesses
into gray areas

slicked back and natty
making wise cracks

out of character
via cooked-up narratives

dead-end encounters
covered mouths...

" No Longer "...

" No Longer "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

No longer scrubbing much
but still clinging to us
from rude introductions
for wildings within our gut
becoming covered
in goose bumps minus disgust

separately left undiscovered
and uncut upon sniffing each other
over millennia as sensing vestiges
of prior predators smelled
since the first microbial cells

while distracting ourselves
from older preferences
obsessively repeating ourselves
all in self defense
as our populations grow denser
in essence with unintended side effects

yet seen as very necessary
warily taken out of context
segments fused together
while lacking
in terminal appendages
often quite complexly
apparent without dissection

seen present in many insects
of sufficient interest
to warrant brief mention
at the lateral edges
of ordinarily not red

likened to chemical receptors
suitable for development
within our outer shells
to large extents
immediately
thereafter
subspecies
in italics...

" Moving On "...

" Moving On "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Moving on
to tomfoolery
in mini-series

as movies
for final
tallyings
of disbelief

actually
happening
dazzlingly
like sass

grumblingly
clucking
and tut-tutting

claiming
our days
are numbered

warning glumly
and unsubtly
well within
close proximity

rather heavily
both breathy
and melty
altogether better

via itty-bitty
bits
of publicists

feeling
artificially villainous
within minutes
of infantile blatherings

while running
gags
in sleek hatchbacks...

" Into the Fire "...

" Into the Fire "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Into the fire
like a lucrative
spotlight
being beamed
broadside
as a highlight
for irreverently
gleeful dark comedies

often overlapping
via backflips
upon winning
in the standings
of training-camp
Hinterlands

rather than tagging
along to no avail
due to prior
mishandlings

yet yammering
to embrace expansion
recalled with a laugh
in order to restore habitats
over toxic tracts of ash
and that was that...

" Falling Into Place "...

" Falling Into Place "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Falling
into place
via
preferential
accumulations
luxuriant
by nature
as non-
shattering
traits
annually
replaced
by going off
to the races
via think tanks
throughout
magical
landscapes
labeled,
"epoch-
making
imaginations"
decent
by modification
proliferating
fragrances
drawing
pollinators
grains
slipping
away
hourglass
shapes...

" Checked Actions "...

" Checked Actions "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Checked actions
as vanishing
bees' habitats

rusty-patched
yellow-banded
benefitting plants

peppers and cranberries
vast farmlands
symbolizing rallies

charismatically
grabbing
floral anthers

shaking loose grains
listed as endangered
"buzz-pollinators"

sustaining vegetation
feeding populations
embracing ancient ways

nutty and fragrant
faintly tangy
gentler paces

sealed and baked
borne heydays
candled birthday cakes...

" Major and Minor "...

" Major and Minor "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Major and minor
mountainside shrines

ever-so-slightly quill like
esteemed varieties

budsets of white
oxidized slightly

lighted sideways
heaped into piles
encouraging enzymes

loosely squeezed
wriggling sifting
green to coppery

solidly full bodied
lychee or orange
scented blossoms

crowned by headdresses
as concessions
of abandoned prospects

resisting impressions
deep regret

rigidly ineffectual
diffused influences
as demoralization spreads
over warlike steppes
minus precedence

being deemed
"booty collection"
rather than "re-conquest"

ominous wealth
pledged dissent...

" Hybridized Sirens "...

" Hybridized Sirens "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Hybridized sirens pasty white
sometimes sacrificed
by shoreline buy-ins

going wildly
unrecognized
during story time
while chipping
away at our lives

being blown dry
via unforgiving guises
voiced as misaligned outliers

spoken out of kind
like black magic items
for insincere types
spelled on the sly

stirring profiles
holdings scrutized
by the high minded

after falling on hard times
and making homelessness a crime
peaking out from behind blinders

claiming birthrights
slapped with fines
as way way too uptight

beeping digital devices
becoming slaves
to our whining...

" Of Masks and Song "...

" Of Masks and Song "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Of masks and song
for succinctly poignant
boisterous come-one-come-all
socially awkward

donning cardboard and tinfoil
upon exploring the auspices
of under-functioning thyroids
within the orbits of sordidly paltry scores

while serving cookies
to the audience
as familiar territory
for dolled-up ensembles

being lassoed
on the spot
with mannequin arms
of silver robots

having once been honored
by the controlled chaos
of cutted-and-pasted faces
cast in paper-mâché...

" Wanting "...

" Wanting "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Wanting
to reconnect
by settling records
wherever
move-ins are expected

as remnants of inheritance
for humble houseguests
from open-ended divestitures
via luxury residences

at fashionable intersections
with private fitness centers
in order to address
physical imperfections

learned from mid-century
rejection while living
within ubiquitous split-
levels like the less-
than wealthy

hankering for holistic
homesteads every
one-and-again...

" Teensy Bits "...

" Teensy Bits "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Teensy bits
filling grids
with digits 
using 
addition
subtraction
multiplication 
and division

simulating 
blizzards
veils lifting 
stray bobby pins

swirling 
dips
where
the wind
is living

capes
billowing
while 
not bothering
to think
like clumsy
expediency 

hibernal
infernal 
eternity 

shifting 
seamlessly 
teetotalingly
dreamy 

effortlessly 
in sync
centering 
on gravity

deep
deeper
deepest

as sober intimacy
striding imperiously 
going mad briefly 

into the crease
leaning 
climactically 
via fogginess
at the bottom...

" Requests for Previews "...

" Requests for Previews "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Requests for previews
as solutions such as treating
cricket bats with war magic
for matches of circumstance
including footages of practices
via dancing and chanting

like aspects
of taking back
the past
by tracking
multinational
masks
and artifacts

while summarizing factors
from humanity's
centrality of folktales
as passed-on
contrasting social patterns
of comparative
elaborate and adaptive
universality

turning nasty shortly thereafter
towards the overly anxious
and all-too impacted
by erratically unflattering
chest pounding

attempting to reshape
the international
smacking of angry
arrogant strategies
of unabashed
toothsome snacks
having been left intact
by nuclear family
cub boarded capacities

being made to feel queazy
during swirling touring gigs
along real or imagined riffs

demanding action
gone packing
with sweatbands
and spandex

being sworn in
with the sparring
partner flare
of psychedelic
rockets' red glare
free of extraneous matter
as sticks stones and sand...

" Not Exactly "...

" Not Exactly "

by Suzán Jiván

Mom & Mom-

Mom Suzán 

Not exactly 

almost automatist 

doodlers and cartooners

with onlookers looming

over protrusions 

of speech balloons 

dashed off to spread the news

for vintage no-goodniks

becoming lower in pitch 

during bodily hardships

with little promise

while feeling closer

to the bottom

lacking in aplomb

via unmoored stars

exhaustingly reconnoitering

yet intriguingly conjuring 

complicated plots

for lifelong Odysseys

with wisdom

treading lightly

yet being deemed 

as a genially

must-see bonhomie...

" A Sophisticated Gift "...

" A Sophisticated Gift "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A sophisticated gift
depicted in a tilted mirror
of cropped interiors

like comic strips
with glaring
criss-crossing
lights shining in
along lengthening
horizon lines
from outside
of the line of fire

via rapturous environs
house sparrows alighting
on opposite sides
of highlighted wires

while portraying Magi
called by the wildly
starry-eyed divine
as bits of writing
far from first light

becoming more likely
when vaguely defined
during lesson assignments
of course designers
likened to used study guides
for fictionalized script writing
via goals of survival

ever shrinking
like differing hypotheses
by avoiding extremes
of ethnocentricity
versus infinite
meanderings
minus meaning

responding to flash
and glamour
in the name of valour
middle fingers jabbing
straight into the air

minus context
conflicted and hostile
largely forgotten
like camouflage

created for prosthetic masks
all in the dread of being drafted
dense crosshatchings
across fractured canvases
of keyhole vastnesses...

" Even More "...

" Even More "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Even more resolute
while breaking news
as new guidelines
being over used

deemed safe to do so
precluding reclusive issues
being put to good use
via out-maneuvered
rust-belt blues

where every cent counts
peeling out the angsty
yet well worth keeping
by bungling opportunity

for malevolent guardians
of the once solitary arsenals
of calming repertoires

never very far apart
from "no comment"
by the wobbly

not going to be stopped
spin doctoring
late to the party

in the lights and darks
of live dramas
being left ardently
unresolved...

" Up for Grabs "...

" Up for Grabs "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Up for grabs
costly battles 
grimly examined

appearing to be cracking
within hasty clashes
while attempting to rally 
mixed race crowds

taken for granted
as always attractive
via largely financed handfuls 
from hacked grab bags

like scrambled executive matters
by checking excess baggage
during heavy air traffic 
for money managers 

reinventing philanthropy
ultimately mishandled 
and laid bare
by activists for humanity 

becoming incomprehensibly absent
both as fantasy and failure 
do-able in comparison 
to cold hard facts
versus outright bragging 
emphatically left to chance...

" Potboiler Worthy "...

" Potboiler Worthy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

Potboiler worthy 
recontured couture
of optimal firmness
by cleansing impurities
via non-retouchings
going into the wee
hours while living
with the glamorous

pushed lavishly 
via intentionality 
as a stunning artifact
of airbrushed nostalgia

while feeling
at home 
with cameras
for reality 
deep down
and right now

like internationally
challenging creamy
lip lacquer
drawing thousands
from every angle 
joining the ranks 
of high-low fashion...

" All Included "...

" All Included "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán 

All included 
playful sides too
like creatures 
in the room
as pursued recruits

during confusing spy movies
given positive reviews
written all in the line of duty

still clinging to untruths
colluded as sticky issues 
first glimpsed 
from far far into the future 

being disturbingly caricatured 
while preaching to the converted
all with a sense of urgency
by nervy stand-ins

all running the risk 
of being crammed 
into contradictory history
via staged still pictures...

" A Deep Dive "...

" A Deep Dive "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A deep dive
for the single-mindedness
of self-reliance

while fluffing sensational lines
clockwise as rapturous
fusions of kaleidoscopic light

pretty much like Valentines
along lopsided improvised
lacey lifelines felt post sci-fi

dirty white powerhouse pipes
like sensings of delight
via broken-down stereotypes

that might surprise
by miming
maniacal sword fighting...

" What Else? "...

" What Else? "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

What else is new? like thorny issues
as self portraits for multiple voices
being streaked across billboards

scaled to be portably primordial
art forms of personal choice
while proceeding with caution
due to the pain of loss

nudged back on course
via swan songs
from brush-worked belongings
hinting at just the right force
drawn with little or no noise

laid down on shaped supports
with neither electricity
nor running water
created counterpoint
over two stories
as never before...