" Supreme Micro "
by Suzán Jiván
for Ishamarr Swan
Supreme micro
providing unreliable
two-timing classifieds
by realigning
mannequins and animals
at first glance
while making a plant.
" Heading Instead "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Bon Voyage
heading instead
to a heterosexual
while paving the way
to the same unfavorable
openly gay disclaiming
and defaming discrimination.
" Newly Restive Cells "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Newly restive
cells stiffened
by the ample
helping hands
of marmoreal
microfinance
at a drag-like
first glance
metaphorically
standing...
" Dream by Dream "
by Suzán Jiván
for Ishamarr Swan
Through the back door
a feeling of ease
entering
with the compelling momentum
of a fine-tuned regimen
with empirical evidence
being gleaned dream by dream.
" Thinking and Picturing "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Thinking and picturing
simply unpacking
in an interactive battlefield
of discordant law enforcement
with shortness of breath
emphatically panting
after dismantling
cold hard cash.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Had been redacted
as examples in fact
of criminal acts
of overturned bans
of wholly inadequate
and vastly unplanned
interactive casts
with smartphone apps.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Unvarnished
signals shift
into unspoken
vivid coalitions
stilling award-
winning
intrinsic
villians
with
inconsistent
winter afflictions
in a land
of privilege.
" Report False "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Report false
pledges to withdraw
expected recalls
of the long distraught
and overwrought
taut discord along
a volitile course
with a gnarly core.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Surprised
by a freshly-
sprayed
double
yellow
of paint
translating
poetry
to the stage
as words
became
further
layered
in a
harborscape
gathered
in imagination
through
collaboration
of handclapping
zigzagging
and an insistent rasp.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Eclipsed at home
insisting on text
messaging
to Lang Lang
in a tightly packed
crowd of dancers
from a mystical branch
where sustained notes
suddenly broke
with songs of the serene
still hovering
after an attempted
bombing of intolerance.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Not inclined to haggle
over safety practices
" run it, break it, fix it "
without a single
lost-time incident
with ever-
increasing
contentious
texts
for a scaled-
down market
share being
greatly out-
weighed
by escalating
failsafes.
" Reasons for Circling "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Things not said
overstuffed
schedules
plus
potential
for many-
tentacled
directions
with prickly
impressions
as reasons
for circling.
" Top Lots "
by Suzân Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Top lots
touchy
feely
leafy
gilded mahogany
sleuthing around
fanning out
seemingly wise
like a radiant
eye in a triangle
seen days later
removing
adhesive tape
from a landscape.
" With Sketchpads and Guns "
by Suzán Jiván
for The Lone
Remaining
Combat Artist
With sketchpads and guns
on a glorious summer morn
roaring with few choices
pointedly remorseless
taught to retort
to the invisible
yet ubiquitous.
" Where and When "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Where and when
second guessed
rendered events
age-old questions
eyes and minds
stepping aside
clearer and brighter
at times
passing by
bonfires
and razor wire.
" The Watchdog "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Its leaking well
a domino effect
heavily hedged
empty shells
hemorrhaging
threatening
all else
as a lesson
in excess.
" A Stopgap to Combat "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
A stopgap
to combat
keeping
an eye out
for fingering
a split pea
as ethics breach
far-reaching secrets
of disease and toxicology
while looking perfectly sloppy
nonchalant and dreaming modestly.
" Paint the Sky with Stars "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
One interlude
shoots through
into the next
as a sensual
remembrance
conjures
force fields
and fireballs
all along
an orgasmic
coursing.
" An Outbreak "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
An outbreak
priced out
but slowly
regathering
and still
mastering
cramming
for the super-
natural exam
of wackiness
in a self-parody
filled
with the some-
times-dyed
grinding
mediocrity
of orange
munchies
with memories
of green.
" Defrocking a State Rock "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
For the first time, a saga
toward the bizarre
empirically thinking
weak to weak
increasingly seeking
to demonize serpentine
and thereby
defrock a state rock.
" Beyond Touches of Color "
by Suzán Jiván
for Ishamarr Swan
Beyond touches of color
better than expected
but best dispelled
by remnants and relics
of slightly unsettling
refined elegance
smitten
quite strikingly by white
in the precariously
grand scale
that a blank
canvas can bear.
" Always One-Upping "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Always
one-upping
at first blush
culled
from a flurry
of stunning
love up-
ended
by a clumsy
funk
all of a sudden.
" Back to the Birthplace "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Back to the birthplace
bringing a fragile peace
of conscripted intimacy
moving quickly
into antipathy
rehashing history
drinking heavily
while making
a bounteous play
with restrained
resignation.
" A Refracted Past Time "
by Suzán Jiván
for Ishamarr Swan
A refracted past time
in realignment
seemingly entirely
and as if mystically
invisibly and magically
actually meeting
a fanciful match.
" Seeing and Playing "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Seeing and playing
with a new piece
of hardly surprising
and wildly popular
archives of highly-
compressed every-
day life in a lithesome
spiral while roiling silently.
" Finger Pointing "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Six-tiered
trained
volunteers
often naked
hold court
all along
an audacious
chaulkboard
of cheeky
mythologies
in dark pop.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Causing splits
in double digits
the culprit
a stiff upper lip
with a quivering
lower lip
reflecting
palpable shifts
in lip-smacking idioms.
" A Deep Driller "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
A deep driller
in dizzying
3-D
creeping up
capping risk
cementing
boasts
of fast growth
while running
afoul
of pared down.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
A better understanding
of self awareness
ramping up
an anatomically
calm subconscious
fuse box
with the emphatic
capacity to track
elaborate patterns
of comparative
panic attacks.
by Suzán Jiván
for My Grandson, Kenny Tepper,
who loves to imagine and tell
scary tales...
" Little But One Another "
Little but one another
in a core of passing along
a tear-down report
reducing costs overall
by trying to strike the tiny bull's eye
of a viscous cataclysmic fullfillment
with a concocted preposterous.
"Tumbling to Victory "
by Suzán Jiván
for Mark Joseph Stopek
Tumbling
to victory
somer-
saulting
across
a lush
green lawn
fending off
returning
to a former form
while grunting
and twisting
end over end
in a header
of parental
affection.
" I Was Weeping Too "
by Suzán Jiván
for Our Founding Fathers
I was weeping too
eschewing the pursuit
of reducing mutual truth
into abhorrent shoehorned wars
cramming the appalling norms
of a Wild West bar brawl
into international law.
" Miseries Borne by Water "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Miseries borne by water
in two stories
trickling down, standing out
during the double-dipping
skimming missions
of a catastrophic spill.
" Front Running "
by Suzán Jiván
for Stanislaus Dubowski
Front running
along a thin
story line
in a tight race
of runaway
favorites
scheduled
for someday
in a warm
embrace
with haste
plonked
into scholarly
emailboxes
where the real
trouble starts
in hard-bitten
flinty cinema
with evocative shots...
" Called into Question "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Called into question
headed for commencement
slowly and steadily
addressing the threat
of a hard-learned lesson
yet benefitting in the end
from being thickheaded.
" Called into Question "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Called into question
at commencement
slowly but steadily
spreading the threat
of a hard-edged lesson...
but in the end benefitting
from being hardheaded.
" Racing Forward "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Racing forward
spurting growth
giving notice
recasting
a champion
revamping
the rallying cry,
" Well Timed ",
with the likeness
of unspooling
psychedelic rhyme.
