The Lickety-Split

" The Lickety Split "

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...