by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán
Fond remembrances
everyone's fault--and no one's
summer apricots
most unusual
continuing to perplex
fried okra, sweet smells
longing to return
intrusive reality
small-scale nostalgia
aerial mapping
counteracting trickery
unassuredly
thunderstorms forming
pre-existing conditions
getting hard to tell
field fighting fires
shifting winds of smoke columns
two five-fingered hands
thumb as a pointer
beginning with the pinkie
balled into a fist
hardly disappeared
aerial reconnaissance
minutes and seconds
comparative ease
genetically bloated
protein-coded genes
withstanding stressors
that are not identical
genomes of our own
without its microbes
infecting our ancestors
sudden redundance
healthy mealybug
exists in a tapestry
nestling in life's net
continued instinct
without lifting a finger
manning barricades
recounting leaping
catching reference instantly
minus great surprise
student activists
draw moral comparisons
championed each year
shouted down campus
grappling practicality
remains to be seen
speech is as a plea
closest things, stand up, speak up
aiming, straightened out
like life's companions
as Pluto, the un-planet
cowbells in the Alps
ringing round-the-clock
indulging in nostalgia
clanging round-the-neck
intermission less
distended impermanence
spreading pathogens
forever scanning
mass planning for survival
spiteful planted knives
like spates of hate speech
grasping for unseeable
balky loyalties...
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