The Artist and Her Progeny: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Feet in Diameter

" Feet in Diameter "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Feet in diameter
in these giant
empty canvases
memorable
as immense senses
of the "not as of yet"
like collective randomness
in questions without exceptions
to the "none other than"
careful attention paid to belly-
buttoned current events...

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

In Which Pedestrians

" In Which Pedestrians "

by Suzán Jiván aka Mom
and Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric

In which pedestrians
as somebody else
said in theoretical texts
of the midsection
sinking beneath
the funerary pastiche
like housing
below ground
throughout
an outfitted
radicalism
for the left out
that fell out
of touch
with the cellular
after leaving a mess
of weaponry tempering
the exceedingly jealous
with the tame and harmless
being kept in a harness
of marked paleontology...

Monday, March 26, 2012

Turns that Obviously Call

" Turns that Obviously Call "

by Suzán Jiván

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Turns that obviously
call for strong
positions
on all fours
for bizarre
authorities
feeling the logic
of the odd
as common
comedies
in primeval swamps
for sweet or waspish
oxymorons
in purgative plots
of hard-bitten
soap operas...

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

As an Ancestor

" As an Ancestor "

by Suzán Jiván

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny & Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

As an ancestor
and a master
of the eleventh
chapter
thought to have
been
in the second
century
of all living
things
alone for three
while cultivating
tranquility
like a great painting
gently sloping
in harmony...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Sent Messengers

" Sent Messengers "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
aka Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny & Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric

after I Chronicles
14, 15 & 16

Sent messengers
spreading themselves
over and against
pitching tents
of a hundred and twenty
voices of joy
appointed like doorkeepers
of obedience
as singers and dancers
come to pass...

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Slippery Elm

" Slippery Elm "

by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Slippery elm
either single
or divided
somewhat
wooly

Prominently
red-hairy
cottontail
bottomland

III

Flycatcher
"wheeep"
and a burry
"prreet"
high in trees

Galls on leaves
vast majorities
thorax abdomen

Median furrow
mostly folded
robust

Freshly cut
inconspicuous
thin deciduous

VII

Dense clusters
fragrant
when crushed
carnivorous

VIII

Sticky secretions
aquatic habitat
bilateral

Derived
from Latin
punguis
" fat "
lying flat

Ground
into flour
ruffed grouse...

Friday, March 16, 2012

Florida-Only Trees

" Florida-Only Trees "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Florida-only trees
13 species
mostly leathery
5 of these

Observed only
as mangroves
paired
with leafstalk
glands

III

Alternate plants
brackish
bundle-scarred
inner bark
honey blossom...

Thursday, March 15, 2012

In Tropical Regions

" In Tropical Regions "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

In tropical regions
borne simply singly
attached at tips
often twisted
by differing
genuses

After radical symmetry
boiled and eaten
with prominent ribs
downy on the outside
rising funnel-like
along one side

III

Greenish white
bruised easily
like winged seeds
angled between
columnar structures
moist and abundant

Conspicuous crowns
as rings of bracts
and crowded panicles
of deepest lavender

Diverging branches
short-stalked
downward and backward
wet ground dried flowers...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Wool Grasses

" Wool Grasses "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Wool grasses
whitish bracts
sandy areas
gravel paths
wetlands
nearly
Eden...

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Into Double Digits

" Into Double Digits "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Into double digits
sometimes women
at times men
like children
subjectively
thinking
spontaneously
speaking
but ultimately
ending up
in increasing
numbers
of seldomly
objective...

Friday, March 9, 2012

Deciduous Sheaths

" Deciduous Sheaths "

by Suzán Jiván

for My Uncle Bob
May He Rest in Peace

Deciduous sheaths
twigs needles
food for deer...

Triangle

" Triangle "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Triangle
rosy red
gleaning
trees
insects
eat...

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Varying in Colour

" Varying in Colour "

by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Varying
in colour
as senses
of spectacle
succeeding
in releasing
the surreal
pasted
on buildings
and media
T-shirts
in the interior
with child-like
expressions
flecked
with speckles
on a smooth
edge
after etching...