Friday, February 6, 2015

Marzipan-Hardened Scalawags

"Marzipan-Hardened Scalawags"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Upbeat loosed blueprints
infused with pungent pink petunias
in use as olfactory memory enhancers

for common mom de guerres
like brown twisted nails
for battling heirs

as battering rams hammered out
by bankrupted budget plans
likened to belated picked-up tabs

daubing away tears
over years and years
for helicoptering migrant mule deer

while wishing to amiably flit
onto pigment-thickened
water garden lilies

sketched out posthumously
by marzipan-hardened scalawags
being asked, "Is it larger
than an almond bread box?"...

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