Drabbish Savior Faire

" Drabbish Savior Faire "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Drabbish savior faire
turned outlandish
barring barbed prickly pears
as thorny portals to the past
hidden neath rampantly
amassing pompous grasses
stopped caring...

Unseemly

" Unseemly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unseemly surreal
invasive species

unsettlingly thinned
bloodlessly statistical

late-winter swims
shivery via proxy...

Right There at the Top

" Right There at the Top "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Right there at the top
given a polish
to existing problems
amid graceful palms
and luxury spas
for people watchers
gone bonkers
along promenades
of seafront properties
pitching and putting
past bunkers
under construction
unobstructed

as seen in screening
rooms of tycoons
with creative yens
for overdevelopment
staring wistfully
while white knuckling
across the skin of our teeth
above neighbors balconies
while hovering over shrubbery
carrying above-average
nursery price tags sprouting fantasies
amid lifelong bonsaied plantings...

Between the Fingers Ring

" Between the Fingers Ring "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Between the fingers ring
far-flung features in play
for gestural destinations
clocked over odes to locals
going globally and cosmically
into elevated oases of profundity
incrementally digit-by-digit...

Legacies of Offspring

" Legacies of Offspring "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

All-consuming
non-responsive
rebooted fathers
inhospitable hospices
indomitable philosophers
becalming familial histories
eternally being likened
to vital legacies of offspring...

Displays of Bravado

" Displays of Bravado "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Displays of bravado
hard-earned vernal views
in bitter perusals
of winter's refusal
to move on
like the lost art
of a catharsis
explained on NPR
as fairly obvious
climatic opposites...

Beguiling Dreams

" Beguiling Dreams "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Perhaps
most importantly
as a holy writ
gotten under the skin
of a heroine

creepily specific epistles
too cryptically built in with wisdom
like considerably indiscriminate
adult fiction factored in with trickily
irreconcilable differences
irrevocably thrown in
with a checkered history
of beguiling dreams

ridiculously pretty
while beating data fees
and dangers of tripping
on innumerable liturgies
by romping elegantly
across ubiquitous simplicities...

Hoo-Ha-ed Artists

" Hoo-Ha-ed Artists "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Go-getters
getting spent
inanely framed
mildly risqué

as seen in BVDs
on DVDs
of two reelers
in newly-released
"woo-hoo-ed" sequels

coaxed into posing
over the threshold
of the not unknown
as "hoo-ha-ed" artists
playing their "ah-ha-ed"
parts for grand poobas...

Out-Imagined Believabilities

" Out-Imagined Believabilities "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Off-beat theories careening
without reason or routine
spanning land and sea
granting anonymity
for playthings
sandwiched between
the next-best thing
swirling with alter egos
indifferent to symbiotic niceties
like catchall phrases
spoken as down-home tropes
yanked off the program
of out-imagined believabilities
after landing with a thud
as a "so-called-so-what"
excluding the "and" and a "the"
withering within a teeny bit of pith
listless and still never before exhibited
along with the slang word for a spill
outmaneuvered by slick resiliency
while laughing and dancing
in giant galoshes
and out-sized jodhpurs...

A Vortex of Mourning

" A Vortex of Mourning "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

CAUGHT
in a vortex of mourning
as rampantly blooming glories


slender stems
fragrant centers
light-sensitive petals


overgrown climbed trellises
self-sown black holes
at the throat...

Aerial Analyses

" Aerial Analyses "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Left unleashed
starting here
with sidearm
deliveries
at the combine
of alpine
bob-sliding
penning writers

turned upside down
after waiting it out
then coming around
in practice runs
past prior doldrums

actively tracing paths
right through the air
with their bare hands
as increasingly emphatic champions having mastered aerial analyses
of their zigzagging bafflements...

Blowing Upslope

" Blowing Upslope "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Blowing upslope
far from below
the unknowns of almosts

going un-noticed
hopelessly unfocused
reeling in jokes

rolling off
stiff upper lips
during icy winters

needle by needle
confined inside
blindingly whitening pines...

You'll Miss

" You'll Miss "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

You'll miss
the scenery
by swiftly
signaling
confused
unsound clues
while answering
to vastly
cantankerous
characters
sounding off
way out
of the way
off stage
shouting loudly
at the beginning
without countenance
as nasty fabrics
being quilted with anger
after cutting out...

Don't Blink

" Don't Blink "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Don't blink
some as brief
as unreadable scenes

fused seamlessly
on a sunny breach
where nobody leaves

bequeathed satirically bare springs
bubbling beneath grassy coverings
while masking yellow-tinted long lists

spent evenings
in bereavement
up to the ceiling...

Keep-Keep-Keep

" Keep-Keep-Keep "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Mom, Mother, Grandma

Grasslands
green eggs
sticks in place
marked on flanks
open plains
migrates
gray above
highways
telephone poles
fence posts
outposts
"keep-keep-keep"
scattered trees...

Rounded Open Crown

" Rounded Open Crown "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Father, Dad, Pop-Pop

Fruiting tree
rounded open crown
aromatic
sweet coverings
abundancy...

Addressing Anguish

" Addressing Anguish "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Addressing anguish
and outrage
almost playfully
as hands-over-mouths
ailing title characters
pay handsomely in cash
poignantly contrasted
by a glassy-eyed man
grasping stock shares
been shaken to the core
'bout right 'n' wrong
plunging headlong
into a headstrong
lengthening story
along with less-
than-perect recall...

Flirting with Fate

" Flirting with Fate "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Our ostensible saving
dedicated to the straight
bringing home of capaciously
shape-shifting bacon
unconstrained by danger
and deviously narrow variations
while colliding in pervasively
rivalrous melees as de-winged angels
stare us in the face minus salvation
frayed in the making by flirting with fate
on a first-come-first-name basis...

An Elaborate Unawareness

" An Elaborate Unawareness "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

One rule: ample opportunity
bafflingly aided by actual fantasies
and an occasional ragging
busted up by baddies
with frantic tongue lashings
while flicking out daggers
from ramshackle cabins
harboring the humble magic
of gargantuan kung-fu masters
flailing upon impact
after circling around
an elaborate unawareness...

Cruel Comedies

" Cruel Comedies "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Digging into strategies
grieving lost abilities
lamenting lethal legacies
maligned by disbelief
and hair-trigger intensity
at odds with serenity
captured cleanly
by sharklike instincts
like cruel comedies
in rollicking sequence
supernaturally capricious
recently released...

Wonkliy Nodding

" Wonkily Nodding "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The more obvious
trilling dissonantly
with catalysts
of hands-on
collegiality
unfurling
plushly
pillowy

as stamina lapses
wonkily nodding
while languorously
being jimmied
beneath the eaves...

Taglined as Tie-Ins

" Taglined as Tie-Ins "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Where loyalty lies
like a lighthouse
on a timeline
of new titles
and try outs
for benign
dialogue
catalogued
by scholars
of the so-called
convoluted
harmonic bop
much in progress
while romping
through contemporary
models
taglined as tie-ins
emblazoned
phrase-by-phrase...

Uncanny Ways

" Uncanny Ways "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Paying tributes
slapping backs
looking back
in uncanny ways
as is the case
of adoring helpmates
to critical acclaim...

Elegiacal Improvisations

" Elegiacal Improvisations "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Gathering
back home
familiarly
examined
creatively
free-ranging
exhilarating
interpretations
of elegiacal
improvisations
in space
soaring all the way...

Hale Checkered Cabs

" Hale Checkered Cabs "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A daunting sum
internal strugglings
don't blink
chat up the people
having to grasp
traveling too fast
while looking trashed
in a mere 6-line scene
standing vertically
being rotated by stagehands
and playful conversations
for chemo-patients
as they hale checkered cabs...

Mildly Patient

" Mildly Patient "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A judicious deployment of real life
crammed into the iffily ridiculous
by feeding off intensities
being biliously blasted away
well out of range
of the mildly patient
congealing layer by layer...

Terminal Moves

" Terminal Moves "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Cast and crew
in a communal day's shoot
of terminal moves

as a monosyllabic star
in a skimpily outfitted genre
short on nuance

jutting snake arms
conjuring non-responsive
familial honors

raw and shocking
booze-soddened
snarling ticking clocks...

Cartoonish Creatures

" Cartoonish Creatures "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Widely spaced
floor-to-ceiling
cartoonish creatures
swaths of green
reams of hot pink
burgeoning leaves
beaded neon...

Securing the Bronze

" Securing the Bronze "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Takes another
step onto the slalom
without a partner
securing the bronze
of a close bond
for the followers on
as a partial restart
winner and father
ensconced neath
a teeming pond...

Criss-Crossed Lacrosses

" Criss-Crossed Lacrosses "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Yielding only clinging
to a mystery of the missing
by managing striking holes in the side
while matter of factly igniting scrambles
toward fast-moving firebrands
falling one point short
in criss-crossed lacrosses...

As a Whole

" As a Whole "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

As a whole
nearly unbroken
more or less unfocused
thought of as local
but gone global
on top of the old
going for the gold
over 'n' over
over 'n' out...

Perpetual Set Lists

" Perpetual Set Lists "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unmasked by scandal
landing like an unofficially cultish swindler in the gotcha tradition
for the irrevocably glittery
as seen on perpetual set lists
of etcetera, etcetera, etceteras...

A Contrived Disguise

" A Contrived Disguise "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A contrived disguise
of intellectual lives
redesigned upon arrival
pouncing polarized
into an archive
of preoccupied arch types
never finalized
beneath domed skylights
tie-dyed over unrealized lifetimes...

Given Names

" Given Names "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Speechmaking with high stakes
at the bake-off for given names
of booked D.J.s at the next table
portrayed as cognoscenti...

Happy-Clappy Bluegrass

" Happy-Clappy Bluegrass "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The first two pages
of a score that haunts
without warning
as harmonic support
for phantom passports
after cutting classes
of shadowing happy-clappy
bluegrass in a prayer
while dancing badly...

Non-Chaotic Polyglots

" Non-Chaotic Polyglots "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Non-chaotic polyglots
hardly argued
evolving largely
undulantly accompanied
plucking strings
coppery tympanies
softly stealthy
quietly gestured
transitionally trilling
deititic juxtaposition...

Bringing Brawn

" Bringing Brawn "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Bringing brawn
as a warm up
to becoming chortled
by no formal voices
in a concordant
jubilant chorus
buoyantly accorded
socks off...

Bringing the Happy

" Bringing the Happy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The idiosyncratic
bringing the happy
passed by the hat
with a touch of panache
intensely catchy
upping the ante
as an apt fortissimo blast
of new interactive
a cappella captions
in improv class
unsparingly championed
from beach to cabana
autobiographically abstract
continually expanding...

Cushy Asides

" Cushy Asides "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Next stop
fat-tire biking
with cave guides
over the lives
of faded time
on continuous lines
side by side
as homogenous pride
pedaled all the while
along the likes
of tree-lined cushy asides...

Like Winter

" Like Winter "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Like winter
tiny bits
frigidly
depicted
burgeoning
one on one
spring
to summer
caught
on the cusp
of a month
of Sundays...

Only to Be Crestfallen

" Only to Be Crestfallen "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Only to be crestfallen
responsive partly
left wanting
or perhaps not
while hugging and gossiping
partners
still hollow
at the bottom
of the terrible parts
tiger-spotted
oxygen-rich
for no one
in particular...

Beginning with the Quickest

" Beginning with the Quickest "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Beginning with the quickest
victims and winners in existence
as the most-visible sharply restricted
opinions of toddler-twin literature
spotting billboarded narcissists
pointlessly winging it while rushing in
with candle-lit tips for the littlest mannequins...

Diphthongal Trouble Spots

" Diphthongal Trouble Spots "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Tussling over
fading out
gone full on
as adoptive
diphthongal
trouble spots
exposed by bloat
while imperatively
tinkering
with lean inequalities
like sticker-shocked
nonprofits...

Breakaway Mania

" Breakaway Mania "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Breakaway mania
following strains
to pivotal bases
for moneymakers
dictating states
of the nation gained
as claims of faith ordained
by camouflaged strangers
gone 'gainst the grain...

Envy Fatigue

" Envy Fatigue "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Slowly starting
grinding scarcity
small but flashy
peers surpassing
hiccups of history
dredging meritocracies
of inequality
effervescing envy fatigue
grappling with weird
intervening ideas
of tepid mediocrity
as smoldering history
feigned like cut bouquets
heaped on cobbled streets...

Pointedly Warned

" Pointedly Warned "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Pointedly warned
breached laws
worn uniforms
stripped of insignias
and considerable interests
as circling warships
in grey corners
of no one home
with handwritten notes
for balky formers
of the gangily manned
anxiety prone
many and varied
nothing to chance...

Unwittingly Presented

" Unwittingly Presented "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

To see and hear
versus
look and listen
to fiercely fizzy
possibilities
of then
from way back when
as the thems
inside of ourselves
unwittingly presented
front and center...

Few Devotees

" Few Devotees "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Eerily parallel
inherent tensions
of again and agains
like hair-raising must-sees
for the few devotees
of thought-to-bes
flatteringly schmoozy
disparately reappearing
dubbed while singing
forward-thinking clunky lyrics
in bustling odysseys
bereft of all meaning...

Spreading-Oaks

" Spreading Oaks "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

But only
after the search is over
by taking a stroll
past lower brownstones
as graciously bowed
terra cotta homes
of the socially immobile
seen beneath spreading-oaks-
so-it-goes households...

Alone on a Ridge

" Alone on a Ridge "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Alone on a ridge
struggling to see
around me
over all the ours
of right-about-now
way down the valley
named, " Double-Back "
while running laps
on tablets in January
already sold out
by the unallowable
snow-ladened dazzles
contained
by slowly aged grays...