Infinitely Manipulable

" Infinitely Manipulable "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Infinitely manipulable
yet less predictive
flickers of cognition
habitually slick
in grids of stiffening still lifes geometrically divided
immediately recognizable

like prepackaged artifacts
as fully grasped
and completely intangible
see-through veils
of heady cocktails
for snaggletoothed ancestors
with an eye for fashion

over dark pants
in lieu of suits
of aluminum tubing
suffused with fugitive
primordial fluids...

Renderings in Pink

" Renderings in Pink "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

In a futuristic gloss
of all-the-more
superficially familiar
ravishingly succinct

in a repeatedly
revisited series
drastically differing
at critical distances

with irresistible simplicity
in between extremes
as a brave new intimacy
on a sunbaked beach

daring brevity
with abbreviated ease
from opulent to austere
half smiling beneath

renderings in pink
with smeary mouths
and spindly fingers
like primers of the weird

for mysterious breeds
replete with the intrigue
of spacial treatments
enclosed in folds
gone unnoticed...

Otherwise Begun

" Otherwise Begun "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Otherwise begun
with the sumptuous lugging
of the simply made up

as pale blue piddle
and needless smut
that goes thump

putting up
with different covers
every month

as the struggling young
split among
undulating structures

ranging from
having all the luck
to being hung
over after breakups...

Chart-Topping

" Chart-Topping "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Chart-topping
in a conga
with a wah-wah
guitar
for bebopping
forefathers
previously
unreleased

prices may vary
from scholarly
to crass
in an art-rock dance
of big-band jazz

re-enacted in grand full-scale retrodded encores
throbbing en masse
while calling it goth
like a harmonically gnarly
folk rock disc jockey

with the rises and dips
of beachcomber-kitsch
in limited editions
of booklet rich archival images
re-issued without permission

as dutiful trickles
of lesser-known figures
strummin' 'n' pickin'
through time-lapse strips
while scratchin' a mercurial itch
with cherubic skill...

Strutting Across Time

" Strutting Across Time "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Strutting across time
in a holiday gift guide
packaged as scads
of restored and remastered
high-def transfers

broadcast afterwards
with close-cropped hair
and the nostalgic air
of an aging headmaster

turned fanciful
teddy bear
fresh out of jail
brandishing
public scandals

as overlapping
electrostatic chatter
of fluted fragments
lacquered on canvas...

The Most Um

" The Most Um "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

The most um
breathy
understatedly
frosty
as of late
like previously
compilated
points of grace

enabling gamers
with backwardly
compatible graphics
moving magically
as stand-ins
of tactical throwbacks

sneaking around
like daggered copycats
stabbing punching bags
from lives past
bottom scratching
with distraction

handsomely statuesque
while toe-tapping
and bringing down the house
in a scarlet vested suit for now

still a light-hearted gosh golly
with a special fondness
for undulant nuance
in holiday ensembles
of horned awe
purported up North...

Largely by Doing

" Largely by Doing "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Largely by doing
buried in an over-
glammed fat suit
grown grievously
unhappy and standoffish
smacking of fantasy

in fits and starts
brashly modern
chaotically colossal
as hush-hush concerts

like tidbits for critics
synonymous
with lavishly garish
true rarities
uproariously euphoric
as oratorios

singing suavely
flirtatiously blasé
as succinct
enunciation
in full-length
debuts intimating faith

both orchestral and choral
anchored banner songs
from ornate to hand-made
wholesome behaviors
like carolled duets
with kvells aplenty...

Aliens of Elsewhere

" Aliens of Elsewhere "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Lacking uplift
in the absolutely
humorless vacuum
of a self-proclaimed
living Buddha

like an amputeed
societal group
misconstrued
as evolution

shackled to action
movies to boot
as emasculating
bafflements

like aliens of elsewhere
losing their bearings
sinisterly masked
as scaly wingless dragons

spearheaded by families
neither hokey nor sappy
like bobbing Adam's apples
stashed in atom smashers...

Half-Consciously Responding

" Half-Consciously Responding "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Half-consciously responding
to brutish qualities
while smelling the sweat
and feeling the fleshy

small and delicate
largely questionable
yet surprisingly effective
as casted spells

like foils and complements
competing against
explicit attempts
at glorified featurettes

fused together by truth telling
near the end of a polemic
in the opening credits...

Clad in Bandannas

" Clad in Bandannas "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Include italicized messages
in quirky instrumentals
of unexpressed unhappiness
as collaborative aftermaths
for alt-classical casts

rarely looking less glamorous
than galvanic foreshadowings
off-handedly antagonistic
bare-knuckled despair
clad in bandannas
in a makeup chair...

Threading the Needle

" Threading the Needle "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

As with so many other
soon-to-be minorities
in both legislative chambers
starting to wane like the latest
war-gaming unarmed confrontations
over sanctions sustained throughout decades of preoccupations
like the liberation of rainbows

awash in signature green
skeptical of cease-fire deals
like layerings of single-party creations
after changing hands in a standoff
of self-declared chairmen
threading the needle
instead of retreating...

Fraught Hurriedly

" Fraught Hurriedly "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

As foes step up
attacking tunnels
with turkey hash
on days of clashes
as street massacre
in whatever fashion
like harassed diplomats
scavenging schemes
for the ravaged

fraught hurriedly
in the midst of missiles
firing as sirens scream
above raised expectations
of administrations
on the deadliest of days

though the meaning
of it all may have fallen
nobody but nobody
in recent seasons
sees below the knees
as low-riding jeans
with leather pieces

apart from cheeky
shades of pink
in spare sheaths
surprisingly klutzy
like studded lace cups
of venomous declamations
favoring angsty remakes backstage
too harried by rabid jabber
for unity vows as of now...

Hurtles to Longer Term

" Hurtles to Longer Term "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Hurtles to the longer term
turning drill floors
into open dorms
while hawking hot coffee

being tossed aside or ignored
on short notice cultivating control
in a spray of boasts starting over
handholding with a nozzled hose

in an undisclosed art trove
of little knowns like votive
candles all aglow
surprisingly so
as the melted tallow
of cartooned animals

no matter how hellbound
each of our houses
feverishly accounted
as the "here-and-now"

with the devoutness
of a crouching grouch
foaming at the mouth
puritanically doubling down

to all accounts
becoming a bit fiddly
brought to a brisk simmer
worth whipping
up and puffed a bit
with a wiry whisk...

Perfectly Synchronized

" Perfectly Synchronized "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Perfectly synchronized
with hands-free tweaks
of Kelly green and hot pink
minimally sleek

fitting snuggly
like creature comforts
of curative froufrou
flowing over and below the knee

as eye-searing knife pleats
fanning out in acid green
raffia minis and skinny paisleys
like devotees of slinky asymmetry...

Gouged Out of the Ground

" Gouged Out of the Ground "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Crude is gushing again
seizing chances
at extraction
clamping down
in clearinghouses
of fossilized power
gouged out of the ground

repackaged as, "shouldn't haves"
in millions of barrels
mimicking whiskey flasks
with lid handles of crystalline glass

averse to letting chance
rise or fail, relax or flatten
as visually entrancing
swampy grasslands

like potential tragedies
with differing densities
of rawness and fluidity
as hit-or-miss
copied visions
minutely in unison
with rubbings of tombs...

Storm Flaps of Taffeta

" Storm Flaps of Taffeta "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Carefully calibrated
in the face of only half way
acceleratingly scandal plagued
at the end of the day

in flirty variations as game-
changing celebrated arrays
of lace against thin frames
after months on runways

misstating the surnames
of welterweights
and taking up shelf space
for facialists in lime basil

a coin toss away
as cheeky transformations
like crinkled khaki
with storm flaps of taffeta...

Troubling Flaws

" Troubling Flaws "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Troubling flaws
reversing course
costing a fortune
seen as eyesores

in simple form
detached or passive
often an accident
of the supernatural

more than a passively
charismatic narrative
incredibly commanding
harangued in a hanged gallery

to be exact, even tragic
looking toward
but not at us
profanely ranting

while holding a palette
against the pallid skin
of a mistress as impish
monoliths with maulsticks...

Infectious Nevertheless

" Infectious Nevertheless "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Infectious nevertheless
alternately intrepid
and disrespected
salvageable remnants

tersely factual
and telegrammatic
like ramshackled dust flaps
deviously reimagined

while working on tans
and rebuilding castles of sand
by calling on brats as mishaps
of high-wire acts

closing the gap
as it so happens
with little chance
of latching onto tall tails

after cantering two laps
with sacks of snacks
on madcap horseback
unable to keep track of chitchat

tripping tartly and jollily
in bottom-heavy horn sections
of discredited artists in residence
minus transcendence

deftly up against
shrewd assemblages
of heroes and heroines
with no obvious merit

in bizarre endings
brutally addressed
by hyperextended
bedroom sex

invariably spectral
yet unintentionally elegant
reared-up heads
of utterly adept taloned menaces...

Plumed and Veiled

" Plumed and Veiled "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Plumed and veiled
love affairs haltingly tamped
down and falteringly unmasked
becoming entangled within the grasp
of a wedding band outside of a grand
manor of overlapping adages

like old-fashioned
slow dances
as strings of casualties
within out-of-the-way
anonymous hallways

obliquely related
to hard-to-find publications
like ancient havens
of public domain

blooming and fading
bowing and scraping
in windswept places
as captions conveying
veins of origination
on paper in prosaic beiges

illustrating fateful claims
by returning to normal sized one day
like revelatory preoccupations
with order and chaos
on informational labels

quoting inane conversations
of cumulative situations
without the tedium of waiting
as emblazoned pupils dilate
on crude paintings
of women's faces just in case...

Flagged with Flashy Patter

" Flagged with Flashy Patter "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Secreted away in a distillation
of random mimicry with the legitimacy
of anything and everything
like white booties over recognizably
spoofy cerulean tycoon shoe boots
in blue-chip galleries of hygienic white

rigged with gimmickry
like low-lying flattering light
for an opulently attired
bare-chested chap
with his wig pushed back
while teetering
on the peculiarity of action

between the present and past
by stepping back
for demonic contrast
as enigmatically extravagant
billowy black flagged
with flashy patter...

Over-rated and Out-flanked

" Over-rated and Out-flanked "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Its signature number
a chamber production
in buildings crumpling
under punk without a drummer

in live setups note-to-note
with the heavy overtones
of clomping meat and potatoes
exposing grisly layers of anger

while scratching their way
over-rated and out-flanked
by the vagaries of language
and poor reputations

in round-robin exchanges
hankering to take us
to undomesticated
helmed locations

in five basic templates
of unreadable faces
within echo chambers
for ungainly parroted names...

Locales for Absentee Chorales

" Locales for Absentee Chorales "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Ringing out
the most harrowing
annual turnaround
now old-fashioned
and mispronounced

in the backs of chapels
as locales for absentee chorales
of lost sentimentality
surrounded by out-cast
welcome mats
of the liturgical past

caught up
in the outpouring
of a singalong
erupting in applause
on street corners

being besieged
by Sotheby's
during the upheaval
once the cut is complete
while wielding
antiseptic feelings

behind the scenes
dwarfed by surroundings
with slightly surprising
dodgy science as story lines

with touching sights
of uncompromised
lucky strikes archived
by the outdoorsy-minded
caught as insiders
bamboozling clients
with sidewinders
in firefights...

Impartially Parsed as Voilàs

" Impartially Parsed as Voilàs "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

No proof
of having been looted
in a screwed-up
point of view
with little nuance
followed on
jarringly wallowing
elbowing away
while bangs sway
like a contrarian
counterweight
to a stone-faced
interchangeable
contagion
of mandated
golden halos
in affidavits
of the sacred
impartially parsed
as voilás...

Canons of Cannots

" Canons of Cannots "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

The fictionalized mix
of the dead of winter
empty, non-reflective
within a welter
of mayhemmed clichés

cuttingly unfavored
going to great lengths
nowadays once disdained
for having taken the play
charts away as a plagiaristically
hard-to-embrace heartache

like targeted pharmaceuticals
for ad hoc landmark apartnesses
as innocuously modern
as dismissively histrionic
canons of cannots...

A Soul-Scraping Roof-Raising

" A Soul-Scraping Roof-Raising "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

As befits the original
rippled whiskers
and Cheshire grins
beside tintypes
of Billy the Kid

like wish fulfillment
in limited editions
of footprints
with periwigged
alien skin
as cosseted origins

spiking like camouflaged objects
as composites of diabolical goings on
where shopping is optional
within a full-sized facade

becoming out-numbered
by the runners up in gluts
of pop-up smut
no worse than dull
and not for nothing

unstructured such as subtle
divulgements gone public
like a frustrated mother's
pablum cunningly jump cut
by a soul-scraping
roof-raising exposé
with the vérité
of a remake...

As Slackened Arms Dangle

" As Slackened Arms Dangle "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

The smallest but most elaborate
incorporating all manner
over the careworn past

overridden by piety
dead wood, new life
skin tight, secretly mighty
like a benign pied piper

with a softly rounded mouth
gradually astounded
by a balancing act
stripped down mechanically
with the use of gravity

as an outlet for red-lacquered
conviviality, dazzlingly lavish
with languid tendrils down the back
gently batted, unabashedly attractive
as inclined backs, oddly flat
suddenly expansive

thrillingly apparent
with gorgeous contrast
meeting the handle
smarmally deadpan
as slackened arms dangle...

The Passion of an Outcast

" The Passion of an Outcast "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

No longer
merely
a ramped-
up offering
lousily drunk
on the hard stuff
not for nothing
having become
unwily
on the soft side
of an old idea

evenhandedly
hammering
after over-
reacting
to a backlash
with the passion
of an outcast

facing over aging
becoming negated
by mandated
expiration dates

ranging
from charcoal gray
to radiant
peach shades
with high
growth rates
of differing pH's

as cleansing clays
in genetic makeups
with use-by dates
at the moment
of application
by a co-creator...

A Vexing Gender

" A Vexing Gender "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A vexing gender
winning acceptance
over several centuries
of monitored sleep

while picking up twitches
on zebra finches
spiking on a grid
of cheek switches

in face recognition
for brain-mapping apps
like casual combatants
correlated by battles

overlapping as mortality patterns
nothing like programmable happiness
on the way to nowhere
with a clearly nonliving
mechanical heart
as an emergent phenomenon...

Swaddled Full Body

" Swaddled Full Body "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Demonstrating
the enduring
no-bones
human genome

usually snoozing
in the nude
as paradisiacal
statues of vivacity

like wide-angled
atmospherically
carved casts
of fanciful santos

peering out
of burlap bags
used as backing
for phantasmagorical
palettes of élan
swaddled full body...

Contradictorily Willy-Nilly

" Contradictorily Willy-Nilly "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A finicky medium
of uncanny
three-dimensionality
appearing and disappearing

something akin
to a fiscal cliff
with ear hair visible
for hyper-realists

like louvered blinds
pliantly dreamlike
as a weekend miser
with a big-ticket item

while on a kiddie ride
for the maximum time
inviting lingering
contradictorily willy-nilly...

A Long-Forgotten Windfall

" A Long-Forgotten Windfall "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A long-forgotten windfall
of aesthetic borders
within thinned choices
still moving and calling

as values that ought to be forth-
coming like popping corks
soaring across after alls
while winning on points

cross ruffed for plusses
in bits of the bubbly shaken up
specifically to jump as if funny
like cunning puns dealt to her
as doldrums that bloat...

The Interplay of Light and Shade

" The Interplay of Light and Shade "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

The interplay of light and shade
staged like a pliant migration
emblazoned by pliés
beleaguered by the day-to-day
in morphingly formulaic flamencos

complacently videotaped
by vaguely opinionated
unpenetratingly principal players
in too vast a space
to be called a "chamber"

disappointingly distant
deliberately inconsistent
with a sly bit of one-upmanship
as the critic's pick
for a dissonant sorceress

in a thin script of hulking gravity
marching exaggeratedly
with knocking knees
singed by branding's
visceral action lacking in capacity

while smacking of whiplash
in a large-scale
smash and grab
with the smattering
of a bleached-out palette...

Time Traveling Collaboratively

" Time Traveling Collaboratively "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

for Larry Robin

Time traveling collaboratively
attesting to a watershed
of glorious potential
under the moniker
of fervently furthering the arts

spot on nearly on par
with the throes of an Oscar
in re-verse chronology
remaining largely
like an anthropological
Grand Opera

best equipped brimming
with the verve and credibility
of affably unabridged editions
like Jiminy Cricket portraitists
as inherently redemptive
continually cresting lunar edges...

Distractingly Low-Key Tendencies

" Distractingly Low-Key Tendencies "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Distractingly low-key tendencies
scraping away on turntables
of scalable transformation

reinforced on stage with segues
of digital playback flanked
by video displays in commercial ranks

on the two largest stages
with tempo changes
dubbed with reggae

shouted and sweated away
as the body vibrates
mining dark themes late in a career

with a scrapy, trowelly thingie
scribbling ideas
on buried mysteries

vanishing non-fiction
lacking in spirit
at once perfunctory

curiously and haphazardly
as a jerry-built narrative
unsatisfyingly magical

like slapdash disappearing acts
absurdly melodramatic
yet supernatural

desperately unhappy
with the tone of a struck match
as a declarer ruffs a dummy

playing a club in negative doubles
becoming willing to grin and cringe
for anyone interested in bidding

signing up online worldwide
by waggling
a minutely refined behind

attempting to hide
while waiting in line
for the bobsled ride...

Neither Meditative nor Sacred

" Neither Meditative nor Sacred "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

For promising re-examinings
extremely moving, deeply human
interchanged briefly
with insane layerings

as vocal traces of new strains
re-arranged as the basis
of clapping games
for endgames

like frayed foundations
of dudes praying
for decaying analog tapes
while lacking clarification and strength

neither meditative nor sacred
in peaceful sound space
slowed down, off track
with the rhythms of inching mysticism

like name recognition
of invisible rivers
in inaugural issues
of unfamiliar foreign editions

as short fiction having been
in a dissed round-robin of ambition
not limited to shooting from the hip
like derisive non-fiction

in arrhythmic intervals
of volatile rituals
within circular mosh pits
of re-issued showbiz...

Every Now and Again

" Every Now and Again "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

for CA Conrad and the Poets
at Doobie's in Philly last eve...

May seem disproportionate
having lasted so long
blithely celebratory
steadily impressive
by reversing engines
every now and again

after extracting
the most valued
color and sound
distinguished by balance
while lifting the dampers
hand-over-hand

like the most inviting
"sometimes"
while tipping the balance
with slow pitches
enfolding
one on top of the other

with pink lettering
on lime green
like a late great painting
with a magical name
in anticipation
of congratulations

radiating stimulating
blue with orange
and teal with hot pink
with the wheeling
electronic beat
of a ringleader
lacking in fear
anagrammatically...

A Memorable Account

" A Memorable Account "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A memorable account
read aloud as re-enactment
outclassed by original broadcasts
lacking in sentimentality
against washed-out backgrounds

voiced over the static
of wide-ranging characters
with outlandish daring
impressively imagined
repeatedly and didactically

like vulgar villainy
replete with prosthetic teeth
and feats of longevity
as snarling misogyny
and erotic heat

strutting and teasing
shockily cheeky
with unlined features
gushingly clean cut...