Held Up

" Held Up "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Held up
by those
around
them

in a tiny
town
as an odor-
less cloud

under-
ground
through
a splash-
painted
maze

without sub-
versive
shading
stumbling
midway

courageously
with the bravery
of the first
test-tube baby

noddingly explained
as an extracted egg
on the front-page
of a tabloid paper
under an assumed name...