" 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...