" 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...