No Room to Grow

" No Room to Grow "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

No room to grow
into critical roles
fired into crystal globes

shaken up
with flakes of snow
to say nothing
of rolled snowmen

as high priorities
with eyes made out of coal
for happy jolly souls

below church bell
locations spouting
"holier-than-thou" slogans

depressing organ
pedals and keys
while choirs sing

beside high-kicking
chorus lines
biting corn-cob pipes

heavily breathing
through button-holes
in prosthetic nostrils
of blown noses

broomsticks in hand
running and playing
before they're violently
swept away into poorly-
maintained clogged
storm drains

having been kept at bay
during cascading heat waves
of uncontrolled climate change...