" 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...