Indelibly High

" Undelibly High "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Indelibly high
as self-denial
being likened
to the odds of crying
reality style
after hi-def violence
while fearing
neither spoilers
nor disappointments
as more deplorable
than cavorting
with a blow torch
for a hard-hatted man
whose claim to fame
is self-emasculation...

Mopping Up Drawings

" Mopping Up Drawings "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Parties seen
most seasons
like prominent features
of skin-care ingredients in adspeak


as squabbling partners
accessible to scholarships
moderately nocturnal
and astonishingly honest


with complete
senses of autonomy
with weighty options
cantilevered
over streams
of gatekeepers


mopping up drawings
after a euphoric brainstorm
shamelessly mimed
like famous names online

in few places
later renamed
over several days
during melees
of word games
on soup can labels


with poignant paraphrases
in association
with crazed foundations
as insane new strains
of unlicensed name games
being played
on decaying analog tapes...

Nicknamed Bombs Away

" Nicknamed Bombs Away "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Nicknamed
"Bombs Away"
with the pathos
of a rear lift gate


harkening back
to a more-or-less banished
deftly handled dashed away
mordantly grave pestilent vapor


fanning the flames
circulating like an infatuation
with outrage while languorously
fluttering in vane


like half-cocked promises
boasting broad swaths
unapologetically
slightly off center


vexingly demented
as ever hard headed
predecessors
to lip-smacking effect...

A Well-Defined Drive

" A Well-Defined Drive "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

In this perfect specimen
a hint at a connection
between opening sentences
and degrees of mystery


as salvo signals
blaring along paths
of saxophonists jamming
between a man and his chair


while skipping the line
by buying tickets online
only to find the high-minded
engaging in lives of crime


making history come alive
with a commanding style
and a well-defined drive
to a hideaway off the main line...

Homespun So Whats

" Homespun So Whats "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

An immediate impetus
slowed to a trickle
as a public
dalliance of dunces
teetering
on the brink of a ding


across an unstinting
wall of relief as gently
yet skeptically
hallucinogenic
faces and vessels
of mixed identities


streaming subconsciously
beneath shrubberies
as pundits under umbrellas
becoming decidedly robust
like homespun, "so whats"
built up in indiscriminate hovels...

Dolefully Dressed

" Dolefully Dressed "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Dolefully dressed
as an infectious interjector
medically necessary
for a myoelectric heroine
with the welter of a cleft chin


tragically belied
seamlessly featured
as a cheeky
single of the week
in a circuitously
grisly city


knocking around
as little more than
a noisily insistent rockabilly
with the vociferous din
of a neurotic ménage à trois...

Featuring Petri Camellias

" Featuring Petri Camellias "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Packed quarters
for creatures small
featuring petri camellias


slaying bacteria
with house-keeping ick
being petalled imperceptibly


within the grid of a guppy fish
replete with handsome exteriors
beneath uninhabitable chandeliers


putting out smokey clouds
as found in chapels like cut tobacco
in mosques and synagogues


modeled after cosmological hospitals
as analogues for pedagogues
of stained glass art for twinkling stars...

Is You Is?

" Is You Is? "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

" Is you is
or is you ain't? "

a pared-down plainness
in a staged adaptation
of women haters

coming of age on a webpage
as inescapable shame
and humiliation
made famous

on and off stage
like the maudlin clichés
of a lose-lose situation
loosely named, "ma' baby"...

Prompting Opposite Encores

" Prompting Opposite Encores "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

With a glimpse
of a stand-alone building
proudly billed
as an educational initiative
like a flagship
with a seating plan
of unassailable sublimity


with the depths of longing
prompting opposite encores
of inexplicable thoughts
for friends in the audience


feeling fully at ease
offering "lovely"
strung together
with"weaponry"
and "thievery"
like brawling teens
walloping the bejeezus
out of shameless scene-stealers


online as a threesome
sequel in premiere
being drawn
on the walls
with chaulk...

Steeply Raked

" Steeply Raked "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Diametrically tricky seasons
hollowed-out like tympanic mallets
with the feel and balance
of a bamboo handle


hailed
in a steeply raked
cube of a haul
while lying along
sand-swept shores
for broadcast


playing hauntingly
for audiences
on a granular core
of the unavoidable


sounding
rather mechanical
cutting teeth
by focusing
in on demeanor
minus instinct


ceding to acidity
for the residually quick
after a climatic cataclysm...

The Lower Range

" The Lower Range "

by Suzán Jiván

Shelved...
its fate--
cancellation


be back later
as event spaces
of chiefly creative
interactive stations
in place with a stake
for showcased
parts to play


as abstracted takes
acclaimed
like long-awaited
bang ups
sang
in arrangements
shaded
at the lower range
of vagueness
along inclined planes...

Drizzled and Slathered

" Drizzled and Slathered "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Not all that different set back
against marble backdrops
drizzled and slathered
as if in battle across a dark canvas
being painted in whiteface
annotated in glazed clay
unbecomingly abrogated as slaves...

Steamed in Bluster

" Steamed in Bluster "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Steamed in bluster
vine-ripened, skewered
aided and abetted
by the mutual benefits
of swapping notes
at a wedding


pretty much stuck
unplugged
on paper done
out of doors as moths
of skin color
including punctures


more reverential
than destructive
becoming hamstrung
one above the other...

Fully Explained

" Fully Explained "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Always done face up
fully explained
willingly shaped
plaintively conversational
like filmmakers
bankrolling the bankrupt
smutty as a succulent peach
with appealing sweetness
naughty to nasty
with intense gravity
oozing seriously
terribly overheated
certainly steamy
blearily conceived...

Crab-Walking Fanboy

" Crab-Walking Fanboy "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Drowned out
taken down
jiggled around
like an hour-
long hell
and high
water crab-
walking fanboy
sorry to disappoint
having been under-
reported over all
in long-standing
art forms of short
stories all
for a song
soaring aloft
as leggy auras
off promontories...

Giving Gadgets

" Giving Gadgets "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Quasi-military
wonkishly scholarly
as squiggles
from an exquisitely
juxtapositioned id

with initial opposition
to too much skill
in flickers of history
on to-do lists
giving gadgets
a secular Sabbath

on tripods of sticks
with heads facing differently
gnarled and grimacing
while fighting to break free
by thinking dysfunctionally

with unrecognizable features
surreptitiously preconceived
as ball bearings slathered on trees...

A Call to Arms

" A Call to Arms "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Thigh,
not arm
for a shot
irregardless
of inoculation


day in, day out as carotid arteries
spurt rhythmically up to a point
beneath uniformed males
having been torn off in foreign wars
by chortles after clambering abroad
while lifting bans with combat plans
replete with equally strong chances
for female advancement...

Unmistakable Procrastination

" Unmistakable Procrastination "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Types of idealization
like unmistakable
procrastination
while forgoing
shooting hoops
and pooh-poohing
how not to get the flu


with a sober soul mate
for decision making in any case
as a cause for correlation
like coronations of the nowadays
as underlying relationships
without a vaccination


only to return later
as a phone survey
implying random
causation called, "uptake"...

Avoiding Cold Feet

"Avoiding Cold Feet "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Avoiding cold feet
of newly coupled groups
while play magic flutes
of the "supposed-to"
like happenings
of the "happily-ever-after"
if only as the tiniest of fractals
in " We Must Act! "


after snapping back
as vast comparisons
falling fast into vats
of quickly gathered
devastating impacts of inaction
being staunchly challenged...

Fan Base for a Left Leg

" Fan Base for a Left Leg "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Lukewarm awareness
of a 40% failure
in hip implants


as a once-popular class
largely abandoned
in erratically nefarious tales
of backtracked disaster


as mockingly
shambolic probabilities
despondently trotted
onto the field with ignominies


after haggling
for catchwords
in a nearly
shanked fan base
for a left leg
three inches
from a perfect game...

Way Too Many Mastectomies

" Way Too Many Mastectomies "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Are we doing
way too many
mastectomies?

with torch-song intensity
played robustly by proxy
with the moral compass
of a wittily disarming homily

like the last best chance
in a rambling draft
of an uncannily panicky past
left utterly intact

while trying to recapture
a knock-em-down-drag-em-out
torturer and jailer
for women's health care

undeniably distancing
and hedonistically traditional
as wish fulfillment while sprinting
to the nearest Comfort Inn...

Churning Like Chutney

" Churning Like Chutney "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Avuncular conundrums
as shifty strings
in drone-to-drone symmetries
still bristling with primitivistic whims

recurring in motifs
with literary leanings
in concert
with stomping rocks

no less somber
than bringing out the darkness
of familial anomalies
churning like chutney...

Smoldering Loopholes

" Smoldering Loopholes "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Not always open
to genome arrows
with functions unknown
while taking tolls
as smoldering loopholes


by wackily prattling
scarier impacts
smoothily masked
surprisingly rare
like carry-on baggage
for the ravaged
middle class


while living in
the vulnerability cloud
of a foreclosed house
having just landed
with over-all banter
and little savvy
for clashing bands
of brutal financials
still gripping families...

Snippets of Nostalgic

" Snippets of Nostalgic "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Snippets of nostalgic wanderings
captured in the arms of gendarmes
like ailing stepfathers of the avant-gard
beneath bodies of the bygone
in pomp after hostages
re-enacted as swearings-in
while swarming the National Mall
with multiple oaths of office
in open-ended deployments...

Turned into Dozens

" Turned into Dozens "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Turned
into dozens
of circling
white doves
out from under
the all-of-a-sudden
wafting up
like ripe old men
with sagging flesh
flaring
over balding heads


obsequiously
tongue-in-cheek
on unseemly
silent screens
for recently-
released
raw-memoried
pioneers
repeatedly
remembering
the neediest...

Inter-Gender Dial-Ex

" Inter-Gender Dial-Ex "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Male mamma drip
hermaphroditic milk
without derision

as androgyne
sirens sing
expressively
in cabarets
of lactation

without skipping a beat
intellectually speaking
as females sport penes
of milky semen...

Whether to Keep Reaping

" Whether to Keep Reaping "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Whether to keep reaping
something cheaper
without subsidies
in a penumbra
of secrecy


with the blunt
unease of malfunctioning
money machines
under roulette umbrellas
of tough luck


ferreting out treasure from junk
as well as the ho-hum
from the hum-drum
having rushed way too much
to gain big chunks all at once


no scrambler has won
the ultimate wild-card trump
by pumping up the judges
from blockbusters gone bust
while spurring gun culture
to take a long lunch...

Captives as Gases

" Captives as Gases "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Captives as gases
told in advance last
minute as casualties
of avarice for blackmail


being left off camera
matter-of-factly
as hand-written captions
for the avidly pragmatic
on exercise mats


boosting metabolism
straight out with lowered
torsos and bent elbows
like cardio components
for well-toned landing zones...

Safety Standards as Ransom

" Safety Standards as Ransom "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

In a rematch
with an app hashtag
for glamour gals
clad in black
capes and hats
after killing kidnappers
and freeing captives
as scrambled casualties

despite pleas
and letters to "Dear Abby"
in unnerving chapters
of leaking flammable batteries
charging rapidly
packed in small packages
holding safety standards as ransom
while losing eyes to shrapnel...

As Rectangular Rattles

" As Rectangular Rattles "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Informed by the past
rediscovered annually
as rectangular rattles
and string bands in hand

from bow to pizzicato
thumb piano
flavored pop
three-chord rock
picking guitar

aimed at arts' mythologies
with methodologies of opposites
like phenomenas of boxers
solidly built like cedar-smelling closets
with satirical snarls of souvenir shops

in stark backyard volumes
straddling diaphanous melancholy
familiar to avant-garde
most probably as hyperbolic
marathons of musical comedies
in medleys of aggression
past and present...

Pretty Unlikely

" Pretty Unlikely "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Pretty unlikely
slyly versatile
like a waistline
decades later
by the first lady
in the first place
in snakeskin laceups
for inauguration
with a navy blazer
a few weeks away
with eyewear makers
and sleeping bags
among featured brands
in glamour-girl masks
as unabashedly
as a mannequin
being out and proud
silencing the house
in a mermaid gown
with a seafoam flounce
as a failsafe rout...

A Semiautomatic Collapsible Pony Tail

"A Semiautomatic
Collapsible Pony Tail"

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Captive in an apparent
surrounding gas
without detail over the past
while dragging
masked facts through aftermaths

tallied as a dilly-dally
with knowledge of the matter
in the gut's normal balance
after fecal transplants
used sporadically as setbacks

like ignited batteries
during emergency landings
while looking for answers
in semiautomatic
collapsible pony tails...

A Far-Cry-Touch-Screen Device

" A Far-Cry-Touch-Screen Device "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A far-cry-touch-screen device
zero-point sized laid out like a giant
goal line both far and wide
as a highly unsurprising unbridled life

listed with the woo-woo strictures
of the epically life smitten
looking small and limited blended in
with the antic wit of prolificity

without being teased
by the unearthly on bended knee
given opportunities
to swing with missing links...

Would'a Felt @ Home

" Would'a Felt @ Home "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Would'a felt @ home
with "The Da Vinci Code"
or "Dante's Inferno"
among the posts of poets
in favor of unknowns
cracking codes

most notably in Nordic regions
while on the board of Helsinki
totally devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe
in the newest Guggenheim Museum

believed to be a feat
in the strongest shape last week
pieced together by exemplary instincts
packed understandably
into broken-down boundaries
of standees and honorees
all about the alleys
of trademark complexities

hell-bent on quizzical stretches
riveted to impetuous entities
by darting riffs of uncanny precision
from pundit critics of "Wicked"
whipped up in the kitchen

like catchwords of faux fat
after palling around
with hints of bracketed
caramel-filled candy
clearly preceded by gee...

Murkily Down-to-Earth

" Murkily Down-to-Earth "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Murkily down-to-earth
turning inwardly
after traversing final hurtles

at the mirth of tactile interpreters
that can't be returned
to a seeing or heard world

with the special intensity
of the steaming breadth
of dead executors

turning states' evidence
with the rigged contents
of rebellions' cyberaddresses...

Uncorroborated at Best

" Uncorroborated at Best "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

One dead end
assault weapons
background checks
piqued interest
feeling possessed

uncorroborated at best
briefed on effects
of elementary sentences
with new measures
of detention

coming under pressure
without penalty or censorship
reinforcing recklessness
weaker than expected
while taking bets
and holding their breath

hinging on resistance
while doing due diligence
and avenging victory
by juggling
when the jig is up
based on hunches
of infrastructure

come next summer
all wrinkled up
the lost, the lucky
as bout-ending slugs...

Winning on a Late Kick

" Winning on a Late Kick "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Winning on a late kick
sailing in between
uprights while screaming

seen as darlings above the bar
trying so hard to be promising
superstars of numbing dominance

as fellow tight ends left to help
alleged frenzied imperfections
kept in check taken out of context

seen as freaks of nature
touching spiritual bases
like ancient stargazers celebrated
in cosmic ticker-tape parades

as wrong-way car chases
by bygone players
eating raw data like cake
in insanely steroidal stadiums...

Fratricidal Overnights

" Fratricidal Overnights "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

After the fall more emphatically
unimaginable as gun battles
shot with lugged back cameras
of what's out there shifted around
as heroically bad slapdash

missing in action
lacking in compassion
seen as supernatural
fratricidal overnights
given new titles,
" Argued Otherwise "...

Errors Mounting

" Errors Mounting "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Errors mounting
over the ours
after being
mowed down

by oddly timed
scythed goodbyes
in paradisally green
panoramic scenes

justifying the means
of unsullied antiquities
lured by fast-altering
liberties of instant celebrity

considering art to be
like dozens of knotty
complexities seen
as down-and-dirty...

The Bubonic Dipstick

" The Bubonic Dipstick "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

The bubonic dipstick
like a less-visible
diagnostic instrument
limited to the 100th meridian

as telltale signs
of fleas hitching rides
in surveillance trials
of survivors

along plague lines
analyzing underlying
vermin bites
in the blink of an eye...

A Campaign to Eradicate

" A Campaign to Eradicate "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A campaign to eradicate
a handful of outtakes
making their way
to collaboration
without explanation

like dangerously pagan
displacements
of education
by frank
objectification

not unlike pages
of justification
for late-night updates
as ratings
of a wounded nation
without a start date...

Clinging Tightly

" Clinging Tightly "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Clinging tightly
to a once-tidy
denial of crises

as opus-like episodes
evoking overblown
title roles of false hopes

while poking holes
into swollen egos
void of devotion

pasted over
by missing and stolen
baby powder components...

Previously Unleashed

" Previously Unleashed "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Previously unleashed
at least in the beginning
with the equivalent of illegitimate

how best to get rid
of the overly simple
filled with pity

doggedly offset
by politically incorrect
bootleggable bloodletting

with the inception
of condescension
by multi-lettered men

as reproductive health
amid recession
while bleeding to death

in distracting contexts
of radical action
as bandannas and cannabis

after cataclysms hit
with armored crickets
cannily rivetted to shoebill chicks...

At or Near

" At or Near "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Its absent leader
at or near
the worst fears
for the time being

inordinately airborne
offshore after a foiled
deployment of purported
loyalists as backdoor warriors

instilled with vigils for the ill
in toxic villages of nixed
satellite images mixed in
with intricate plot twists...

Casually Waving

" Casually Waving "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Casually waving
ignoring tastemakers
reshaped by generations

rebirthed from major labels
pulling out of the station
while on location backstage

unleashed unmistakably
seated on stage
with the unduly famous

by rapping from the grave
and evaporating out of the frame
as the score indicates: surviving rage...

Long Losing Streaks

" Long Losing Streaks "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Life rushes by
spent deciphering
frissons of history
in a tease

of set pieces
repeated
by cheerleaders
confirming
bobbing merrily

while erring queasily
and errantly flickering
like contradictory mirrorings
of long losing streaks
in blurry reimaginings...

Stagehands Change

" Stagehands Change "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Stagehands change
the guts of the place
with flywheels and cables

by crunching numbers
with lots of muscle
for precise results

while doing the eye thing
so many have tried
as sure-fire set design

like lines of thought
meandering in anthropomorphic
audiences during a live performance

within orderly auditoriums
ruggedly outdoorsy
yet purporting royalty

as flashes of a talisman
within a labyrinth
of fictionally captive life spans...

Satisfying the Need

" Satisfying the Need "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Satisfying the need
between the skin and meat
fatback and cheek

weekend or would-be
cooked by the heat
of a compost heap

welcoming volunteers
giddily playing the lottery
folly all but forgotten

snatched up
by ecological farmers
longing to carry on

rooftop and backyard
with dormant pollen
stored in stone barns...

Onlookers Wincing

" Onlookers Wincing "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Onlookers wincing
merging tradition
willing to commit

like a stipend,
" Was that the spine?"
dragging the knife

snipped at the table
once an estate
normally cultivated

densely populated
cited acres
as worksheets for labor

time's a wastin'
secreted away
field to plate...

Hop On Hop Off

" Hop On Hop Off "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Hop on hop off
as bits of art
in flea markets
from Calder to O'Keefe

not surprisingly
in a viewless window
for a recluse

reconceived as divinities
with the lucidity
of peaceful deities

cross-legged
and gazing
into S-shaped
blacked-out spaces...