Floor-to-Ceiling Haiku

" Floor-to-Ceiling Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

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

I

Assimilated
a willingness to flatter
avant-garde upstarts

II

Gazing into space
sparkling clutters of glassware
expansive mantels

III

Rendered indistinct
given a spectral feeling
eerily gloomy

IV

Home in the darkness
like cherry-picked libraries
from floor to ceiling

V

Eager assistants
in ramshackle additions
throwing, firing

VI

Copper dinner gongs
pockets of undisturbed art
crowded with columns...

Alluring Discovery

" Alluring Discovery "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

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

Alluring discovery
scanned score
upon scores
scrawled
on chalkboards
as all-important
platform checkpoints

in patterns
everywhere
when squares
are in fact cubes
as a sort of ruse
wandering through
single rooms in a two-
dimensional universe

in degrees before
the not-at-all
with helping hands
for the transcendentally petty
unerringly suggesting
back-to-back guitar medleys
sounding sturdier
and even more majestic
forevermore...

Frog Family Haiku

" Frog Family Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

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

I

Crevices and caves
chirp, nocturnal, flattened shapes
catfish-like whiskers

II

Slips into cliff cracks
smooth skin, prominent front feet
truncated toe pads

III

Absent vocal sacs
loud, rattling croaks, darker masks
positioned head down

IV

Evade predators
hide under rocks and litter
chirp like a cricket

V

Submerged logs and rocks
attach to vegetation
thousands of eggs laid

VI

Starlike projections
clasping females around the waist
Big Bend area...

Tenacious Ingenuity

" Tenacious Ingenuity "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

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

Tenacious ingenuity
widely credited
as pretentious
geeky pleasures
in creepy series
feverishly overacted
with rotting gentility
scurrilously scribbling
with grisly insistence
worked into a lather
as incoherent characters
cast into preposterously motley genres...

As Captured in Captions

" As Captured in Captions "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

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

Sucked the attention
of every pundit
in humongous numbers
as pop-up cultures
taking deep breaths
during post credits

inconsolably overblown egos
as captured in captions
below overexposed photos
circulating globally
in the moment

like tears and tulle
chiefly in costumes
past and future, off and on
as if stunned by an understudy...

Insect Collecting Haiku

" Insect Collecting Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván

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

I

Collecting insects
butterfly nets, pitfall traps
microhabitats

II

Tropical regions
leaf-inhabiting species
sieving leaf litter

III

Luring, baiting bugs
rotting fruit, animal dung
using a pooter

IV

Making compost heaps
decaying vegetable waste
rotting logs near ponds

V

Simply sit and watch
a spider spinning its silk
infinite wisdom...

Katydid Haiku

" Katydid Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

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

A file and scraper
whose song sounds like, " Katy did "
repeated namesakes...

Darters Haiku

" Darters Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván

I

Unpredictable
"skimmers", also called, "darters"
erratic patterns

II

Often quite hairy
slow-moving streams, ponds and bogs
prey on the bottom...