by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
An affront to sovereignty
under the provinces
of The Pentagon
as drones buzz over
the little-known in unnoticed
unarmed and unmanned crafts
foreshadowing examples of handfuls
of the last man standing
beneath the rumbling rafters
like a whistling psychopath...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
I
The near death
of the irreplaceable
having escaped being
tabulated as slaves
II
Made from bottle-
tops under
the moniker
of folk art
III
The dry brush markings
of a hermit in a hut
made from the fusty
ink and brush of the unlucky
IV
Secreted away
atop corrugated planes
of highly attenuated play
in illusory booties over shoes...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
Man minds his sleeping grandchild
after midnight
while dreaming of pack ice
shrinking
like retreating white-winged endangered species
forced to breed in captivity
in quarantine
hitchhiking on nursery trees
being stored in igloos
made of concrete
covered
by stone-eating microbes
blighted
by fungi and lichens
along land-locked highways
becoming less and less reliable
at different times with heavy and light
rains falling at varying places
Fractured into factions of attack
unmarked and unmapped
in a monotony of gravel
parsed by tangents on a sliding scale
nudged here and there
without looking back at sniffing animals
with artifice as armor while stabbing
fingers skyward as a classically
bona fide striving to exercise
with a passive statuette
in prickly defense of morbidity
with pivotal trophies
proudly pointing out the rapture
of song and dance
with a contrarian maverick
from the prevailing underclass
of gross misunderstandings
praised as an idyllic cast...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A calm
arm-twister relinquishing savagery
by speaking out with civility
after singling out lagging
individual action
in benign hideouts
becoming cut-
and-dry-
pie-
in-
the-
sky-
high
stealthy
might
stealing
by in noise-
less flight
ready
to strike
across
blurring
lines
of non-
violence
and deceipt-
ful hype...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy, & Eric...
I
Slightly stuffy
but somewhat
humble from
the long-term
fussing
of an absurdist
public
in unusual
numbers
culminating
in numerous
dumpsters
II
As colorful sculptures
between finger and thumb
becoming wonderfully messy
like an obsessive blessing
concentrating on the chockablock
avant-garde as slightly bucolic
tumultuous objects
in ponderous chartreuse and olive...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
I
Almost halo-
like escaping
unscathed
by standing
fast in the face
of spectators
like sword-
makers
on a back-
ground
plane
II
Illusionistically portrayed
and mathematically based
in heightened sensations
of unshakable faith
and irrepressible strength
garnering the same fate
as " The Annunciation "
in a bedchamber
twice as high as it is wide
like a foreshortened Christ...
by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A new light to the wider
urbanized
sprawling across
lifetimes
of mile markers
like prickly matriarchs
emblazoned
by bushwhackers
retreating
from the elite
closest
to the city
freely or cheaply
as multi-tiers
blanketing the region
with debunkings
of the myth
of one
as too
vulnerable...
by Suzán Jiván aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Lingering over achy phrases
as sophisticated domains
gone crazy sounding tacky
like tasteless reality
sung ruefully as husky and bluesy
flotsamy and blubbery
with satirical fragility
and random casualties
grotesquely hackneyed
as wannabes with prominent scars
on ornamented bodies
of found objects
like epoxied hierarchies
of possibilities at least initially
as anomalies involving
bleaching and teasing
coexisting arguably
as wiry wigs of irony...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A wealthy
backer
aggressively
attacking
the eeewww
factor
captured as chapters
of revulsion in matters
as shouting matches
for ick factors
in full houses
of haphazardly
quasi-autobiographical
smackings
of animality
graphically portrayed
with an assassin's twang
while flooding the stage
with gross displays
unashamedly
followed by elation
in a parlor game
of disgusting charades...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
With tingly pleasure unretrenched
as tellingly celestial with an unbridled
sense in extremis bound together
in intrepid text-free spreads
with chapter headings
of incessant assuredness
in indelible complexities
of multidirectional reflections
ecstatically brandished
as an exacting scrapbook
of poetic couples
squiggling in the clinches...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Between finger and thumb
dun-colored sculptures
pleasantly jumbled
all of a sudden
posthumously
loved
in burdensome tumult
in watercolor studies
of supplicants
sensibly enough
like newcomers
entirely in the nude
in casts that include
idiosyncratic humor
as pharmaceutical
cures
as tear-jerkers
of absurdity
seeping outward
overpoweringly...
by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Slow moving
mostly nocturnal
blending in
perfectly
with a good
supply of prey
in between parted
front legs
in a genus capable
of decay
as a papery egg
case
in a wooden
chamber containing
communally chewed
food unsuitable
for wingless
forms
feeding on fungi
algae and lichens
while anchored
by nymphal skin
with abdominal
segments
split down the back
into the thorax
remaining attached
with visible wing pads
as a praying mantid...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A welter of mayhem
building momentum
from a glower to a pout
hands down, spellbound
underground
lilac walls, red doors
just, " Because "
living by wits
in flash-lighted pictures
and the like undisguised
anchored by uncanny eyes
in pursuance of mankind
like tough guys
hobbled by black and white
at first light
As memories of ice
at first sight
with razor-bladed vibes
designed entirely
as snippets from diaries
incessantly reprinted
republished and revisited
as unexhibited inhibitions
in pale pink, light green
and deep lavender
refractions
of extravagance
trickling
in hour-
glasses
coated
in wax...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Busy amping up with flash-
backs in a strange land
foreshadowed
by glamorous attractions
of alchemy
in admiring eye
blinks
while hiccuping
blindly
woefully
unrecognized
sniffing and pinching
tge predictably grisly
in the midst of whimsy
above the groove
while digging in
decisively
like the two-timing
rarely harmonized
velvety quiet
with the clear delight
of a youthful reminder
hard-wired as fictionalized
grim statistics on a predictable grid
of silhouetted brilliance
intrinsically dimmed
by double-crossed victims
as inconsistent sentimentalists...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Mark
A passel of honors on the long list
of the glorification of war
as a short story
filled with morphine hits
Changing hands in an armistice
of the hellishly compelling
brownish reds intimately connected
with the lethal letters
of the cleverly senseless
giving up their dead as learned lessons
crammed into a head
immersing itself in revenge
at the multiplex...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
The barren
expanse
of a hilly
wasteland
with gruesome
flashbacks
of ragtag
top brass
swooping
over the area
frighteningly
baby faced
shell-shocked
and raving
battered
blatantly
at strategic
locations
of futile
engagements
in a foreign
language
with machinations...
by Suzân Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
The perception of inevitability
permeated
by the incapable decimated
by hard labor
bound for the stage
as an adaptation of , " Hairspray "
like a bequeathed beauty queen
in a nation
weary of the weird bring criticized
widely
as glittery and incisive
in capering dance and brass
fanfares
with advanced ticket sales
for the jaggedly
handsome
and the raggedly
romantic
as slicked-back
shaggy
shaping the fragile
played
dazzlingly culminating
with a standing ovation
in harmonic celebration...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Forward-hooked horns, calf born
in highlands exclusive harems
distinctive patterns as scarce
aggregates of bachelor males
curving backward in a darkening
arc of miombo short bodied
knock-kneed scraggly
next to the camel
Largely adapted as an extract
from plants like tussock grass
built rather small dewlap at jaw
equally long, subordinate
S-shaped horns forequarters
loping along, migratory
ridged horns, U-forms
offspring born
Waterless wards, sizable hoards
cow-like horns, knobby boss
somewhat longer returning to taller
spiral horned dorsal borders
spotted torsos, legs tawny thornbush
erect crest, flexing chevron X...
by Suzán Jiván aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Flight feathers black, but white
under primaries brown
juveniles along shorelines
around a yellow eye
large carcasses tiny larvae
big cavities hatching
through Sahara waiting for scraps
shaggy ruff dusky pink
bone-eating revealing underwings
raucous screams nest linings
mammalian skin and hair
feeding on hares and dik-diks
monitor lizards drinking
preening inconspicuously
hidden heavy bellies
sub-desert stick nests at rest
red defenses graceful descents
shallow nests semi-desert
watershed empty steppes
snatched nestlings
livestock pens
compulsive theft
rivers edge
long crests
lapping
wakes
seizing
eye-rings
dung
beetles...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Haunting
the outer
beaches
as most
migrants
in the interior
short thick bills
in winter
mournful whistle
dropping
in the middle
long distance
slimmer wing tips
rich whistle
golden-plover
snowy piping
killdeer
broken wing
flopping
mostly orange
white collar
field mark
obvious
underparts
mobbed
dark-tipped
whistle
clear "wheeep"
wave-washed
rocks
harsh sharp
foreparts hard
"kwip" stout bill
over winter
teetering bobbing
uncommonly
solitary
barred underparts
muddy pond
bush top
stodgy bulky body
marbled
flocks of godwits
fairly common
on one spot
whistles of wandering
on and on
whinnying trilling
early in winter
darkening still...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Like
an after-
thought
as strength
by default
varying
enormously
back
and
forth
eyes
crossing
into
relentless
formulas
out
of proportion
on hand
as freelance
petal patterns
that vanish
clearly
scattered
off campus
by a pathological draft...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
Rising
and falling
robin-like
but hoarser
as a dry call
while foraging
along tall
cottonwoods all
year long
Waddling on lawns
short tails green gloss
gurgle whistle rough trill
spiky bill high-pitched twitter
dark whisker dense brush
buzzy buff fluttering up...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Raw
and
raucous
coming
to the fore
ground out
and topped off
at the epitome
of artistry
as paradoxical
spots
of goofy
honesty
applied to white
like stated
desire
in a staid
place
of, " Home,
Home
on the Range "
with the density
of dangly
dipsticks
stippled with drips
daubs and dots...
by Suzán Jiván aka Mom-Mom Suzán
Hairpin twists of coincidence
with implausible principles
of nip-n-tuck
not soon
enough
seemingly brittle
as one tough chick
of funny money
all of a sudden
unscrupulously looping
in gestural movements
gone askew
covered in tattoos
in a lurid romp
past
nagging problems
with reasonable markers
snap and snarl...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Inshore waters spawning
dorsal and caudal fins forked
much sought caught midpoint trawling
overhanging predation manmade
distorted proportions of body forms
swift water heavily silted
turbidly intolerant
dark markings dissolved oxygen
Corners of jaws unusually long
at midwater lips thick rounded tips
small rivers brackish habitats
dusky to black chubs gathering
course gravel aborted courtship
off shore...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Boldly
in the open
on poles
bright rufous
shoulders
juvenile
wing-linings
thighs
streaked
down below
narrow
two-toned
scarce and local
visible only in display
puffed up rapidly drumming
wing thumping, "cluck", rusty rump
sharp, "chik", harsh, "check"
red-bellied distended upended in head
chattering rattle ladder-backed
white patch, red cap, cactus canyon
barred on back, black-capped carrion
overlapping black bib whining wheezy
"Deee-deeer, deee-deeer, deee-deeer"
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A fragrant
mixture
self-seeding
on spreading
leaves
as silver
filigrees
of Artemisia
with chives
and thyme
as stoneflies
For a moment
biting violins
both as logical
and inexplicable
like a pilgrimage
left unfinished
Ably depicted
as straight-
forwardly
as a poet
and mystic
of the lickety-split
At a crowded
vigil
for prowling
animals
as artifacts
of the wary
in fecal
matter
between
two camps
pliant
and groovy
in a mirrored
universe
on the multiple
moons
of Jupiter
Like widely-
separated
compound eyes
with projections
called, " Styles "
on the undersides
Considered
primitive
with slender
cerci
on thread-
like
antennae
Simple
biting
predacious
cycles
on stone-
bottomed
streams
cross-
crevicing
forward
facing
torpid
prey...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy, & Eric...
Even
more
hauntingly
formidable
as sapphire
crystal
re-imagined
as amethyst
in a pyramidal
prism
of vitreous
silica
simulating
hydrologic
cycles
of vital
electro-
lytes
in between
Isles
correspondingly
re-aligned
as a crystalline
skyline
in hard type
openly mined...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
Giant damselfly
fore-and-hind
wings in flight
plucking spiders
large eyes
nymphs climb
claspers
on abdomen
still grasping
stagnant
native lands
club tailed...
by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Spit and polish lavishly stocked
in an avante garde salon
of the remarkable
holding out for promise
presciently conjured
like the bygone
preoccupied
at the same time
identically in exile
with a quadruple bow and jabot
among the oldest ingeniously folded
in alternating rows striking a pose
as a shaggy coat grizzled gray
tapering at the base
speckled red
becoming widespread
standing erect
broad head digging claws
conspicuously moist
and noisy
like a swooping swarm...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Powerfully built
distinctly ringed
nearly spotless
with springing and climbing abilities
uniformly tawny hindquarters
nocturnal forage fox-like proportions
arid savanna, tall grass...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Roots and tubers
with tender shoots
dependent on lagoons
and a small white goose singing,
"Coor-a-loo, coor-a-loo "
while facing intruders
with eclipsing
plumage...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy, & Eric
Awkwardly akimbo
fully uninhibited
like the carnal and demonic
insights from scholars
overseeing departments
of opalescent shards
from demolished hospitals
for auteur prophets
in neat arcs
sheepishly departed
like a rickety car...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
In the years before
invigorating portraits
with the past roaring
and squaring off
as thoroughly absorbing
with something more
converging on a corner
against forces
of mind-numbing conformity
never crossed...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
Within the cozy
confines
of the only
place
of its kind
on the spine
of a sideline
swingin' on by
with the arrival
of a shim-
sham-shimmy
as a real-time link
lovably scrappy
cohesively dramatic
cooing on ground
head bowed, grey crown
conceal, surround...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Gotten on
enough
soapboxes
from grand
to modest
and on
and on
having gone
way too far
as a grande dame
with the peek-a-boo
quality of overarching
works in progress
while on the cusp
of possibility
like tongue-in-cheek
measured in feats
of captivity
with limited
experience
in idiosyncrasies
coinciding uneasily
with the bottom line
of domestic life...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Other People's Secrets "
Other people's
secrets
contrived with an insider's
vibe
strikingly destabilized
while getting
wise
to the absurdities
of life
Ferociously nearby
locked
in tightly
on consecutive
nights
with bloody
fistfights
bestowed
as a world-
wide title
Imbibing
like
a life-sized
wild drinker
in the bacchanals
of the ' 60s
with an occasional
martini
and an accented
flip
of the ambitious
exotic and unfamiliar
when and if
caught in the middle
with an interest
in an idealistic uplift
from a quixotic beginner
in intoxicants...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca & Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Nearly Nonstop "
Nearly nonstop
as an inventive
concoction
of wit and charm
with subsequent
mockery
Lost in revelry
unsettlingly skinny
like melons in spring
roughly touching
gently sinuous
Grey-green
laid singly
in ravines
satiny sheen
hillside
faraway heights
Magical properties
buoyed by stream
bulging streams
scorched pieces
jagged peaks...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for The Graffs, McGraths,
Pavolkos, Stopeks, Teppers
and Schmahls as well...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Gently Appealing "
Gently appealing
less radical
than originally planned
with the bravura of magic
as a convoluted tale
like an iconoclastic pastor
as a quirky slacker
for the must-haves
of blandness
practicing acting
as mild-mannered
has-beens
forever on tap
for virtuosos
of so-so no-nos
Enough to glow
at the base
of a cleaved face
on a basal plane
lulled by a volcano
in a conical shape
with an oozing crater
Greater and lesser
yellowlegs
with whitish marks
on dark upper parts
running then stopping
while nesting
in a shallow depression
with bits of shells and pebbles
streakings on heads
barrings on breasts
underparts awash
low staccatos
spotted Godwits
distinctly larger...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
Performed on YouTube
as, " Cashed the Heart Jack "
Cashed the heart Jack
and played another heart
while thrusting a partner
in an interlocking plot
after leading the 13th heart
and seeking solace
in an armory after piercing the heart
with submarginal eyespots
on a red distal bar, sleepy orange
iridescent copper, territorial posture
wooded swamp, cobweb quarry
Masterpieces of Ming
hard to see entering the scene
hand scrolling smoky calligraphy
above the tundra and hummocks
fast becoming a summit
in great numbers at dusk
turning the back of his head to her
as a wood duck wings tucked under
grass or brush green speculum
tail tipped up head pump white clutch...
