Free Floating

" Free Floating "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Free floating
in quieter pools
of organic ooze

netlike markings
sandy shoals
azure edgings

riffling creaks
leaf litter
debris

cycling restarting
racing away brazenly
into breakthroughs

shifting blame
onto graveyard
collaborations

intriguingly campy
as sadness
in undetailed
bits everywhere

becoming active
strictly at twilight
while flattening
against the ground

foraging on cloudy
rainy days
piercing
cricket-like trillings

lowered chins
along patternless
slow-moving rivers

speaking enthusiastically
easier to hear
like a marvelously rushing wind


strolling quietly
outside of outlines
while eyeliners
move the dial

raising profiles
barely fleshed out
as jets streaming

glitteringly aspiring
to strikingly intertwining
swamp pinks

falling asleep
neath compound leaves
soaked in brandy

showy rose pink
prickly weak spines
dandelion-like

spring greens
flower tea
commence sipping

going for hip possibilities
stream-side seeps
Old World/New World Species

crowded leaves
grassy rheems
used for healing
R.I.P.

scents of incense
herbaceous perennials
pernicious weeds
flowering understories

fleshy waxy habitats
safe from recriminations
in shell games
of misidentifications

grossly illustrated
in rows of nodules
immediately below
sutures and shoulders


thickening callous lips
twisting vertically
mottled in darkness

interior teeth
brown interstices
metallic shields
unyielding...