" 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...