"Reeling with Ideas"...

" Reeling with Ideas "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Reeling with ideas
wishes and dreams

illogically untidy
marking time

tipping tine-like
reminiscent of stripes

ridiculing the glorified
matters of deciding

clearly revised
compellingly feisty

high-minded advice
archivally capsulized

in large type by oversized
"hows" and "whys"...

"Of the Past and From the Future"...

"Of the Past
and From the Future"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Of the past
and from the future
which may
or may not happen

like catalogued chances
and customary answers
of practicality
opposed to romantic

as invented alphabets
carved in alabaster
and on fragments
of inscribed slabs

likened to the dustiest
and driest
of historical writings
post setting out to sea

harvesting shellfish
crushed into colorful dyes
of the all-too-familiar
like calamities in crimson

toppled pomp
and majesty
striking passages
theatrical masks

less exacting fare
mimes musicians
and dancers
fallen and still standing...

"Inwardly Winking"...

" Inwardly Winking "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Inwardly winking
familial cognition
autumnal shiver
and chill versus
summertime
tchotchkes

becoming
increasingly
chatty
as incomparable
passages
of preached
originality

whisperingly
unveiled
into the hereafter
stanza
by stanza...

"Given to Dramatic Stances"..,

"Given to Dramatic Stances"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Given to dramatic stances
encouraging overlapping
romance and scholarly
understanding

not entirely in the past
as if, " At last! "
before during and after
like an abstract, "whereas"

written syllogistically
as an, " If this, then that "
truncated academic
practicum...

"A Coherent Mass"...

" A Coherent Mass "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A coherent mass
hewn with an adze

nothing but chasms
clearly traveled

far-flung lands
linked to clans

donning masks
whirling dances

halos of plants
long false hair

threadlike basketry or rattan
realistic yet abstract...

"The Revenge of the Vanishing"...

" The Revenge
of the Vanishing "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The revenge
of the vanishing
paradoxically
helpless and happy

impalpably
fantastical
steadfastly
quicksilver
standards

both outmoded
and old fangled
aw-shucks
blockbusters

as sure-
footed
marks
likened to
an obvious
whip-smart-
backed-up
harmony

commanding
virtuosity
bowing hard
plucking
pizzicato...

"Loosely Raw"...

" Loosely Raw "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Loosely raw
crude and undiluted
spontaneously tutored
via meandering "boos"

construed like sci-fi-
goo-goo eyes
into widening gyres
of outsiders

as snaking conduits
and wires giving off
faint whiffs of moth balls
wafting from former overlords

for much-lauded fanboys
madly hand clapping
cinematically geeky
whiz-bangingly zingy....

"Avoiding a Fixed State"...

" Avoiding a Fixed State "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Avoiding a fixed state
combining climates derived
from suggestively violent
to seemingly benign

scrutinized
by stigmatizing
reminders
of shedding
swirling eyes

colliding unidentified
like marbleized
satellite spirals
of gyral black and white...

"All Traces of Effort"

" All Traces of Effort "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

All traces of effort
subcutaneous
half length

most equivocating
like pieces of paintings
and torn sheets of paper

basically erased
depicted faces
closely related
to outbreaks
of plague

hallucinating
during peregrinations
fixed gazes rubbed away...

"Unprecedented Gestures"...

" Unprecedented Gestures "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unprecedented gestures
flecked with coincidence
ranked in order of scariness
parlayed in kit bags
by pastoral aristocrats

repackaged
in assassins'
saddle bags
in equestrian
battles on canvas

dashed off with fragments
of arms legs and hands
little by little to the last
over-the-shoulder glance...

"Not Entirely"...

" Not Entirely "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Not entirely
along the by-and-by
ritualized by
letting bygones be bygones

having been guided
down the aisle wide eyed
toward a groom's side
in morning suite attire

as seen by candlelight
while a veiled bride
proceeds to teeter
in dyed heels...

"Transplanting"...

" Transplanting "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Transplanting
turning and tamping
flagging seed leafs
unnavigable
gulfs between
venomous hemlock
toxic holly
wrought into wreathes
hung seasonally...

"Arriving As No Surprise"...

" Arriving As No Surprise "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Arriving as no surprise
under a long
wooden awning
shading the sidewalk

while drawing
on cardboard with chalk
a long way off
like a correspondence course
for the former
having been underscored

by dusty lines
insistently styled
outlaw inclined
being inscribed curbside...

"Stances Toward Reality"...

" Stances Toward Reality "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Stances toward reality
detachment or boundary
exactly where or how
as cob-webbed autonomy

exquisitely modulated
flying in the face
of a power play
while controlling the pace
across frosted panes
upon re-awakening
easily manipulated

posthumously quarried
like unbound volumes
of both brain and brawn
ourselves redrawn
in arduous awe
constricted
by headstrong forms...

"Preserving the Palpably Overlapping"...

"Preserving
the Palpably
Overlapping"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Preserving
the palpably
overlapping

never minding
the highest
literary kinds

while trying
mightily to memorize
lines over time

all the while
written on the sly
in stately old styles

being spaced
differently
on the page

by association
likened to a hind-
sighted whole

becoming
uncovered
as our own

dutifully noted
evoking
the "high-chinned" heroic...

"Spit and Image"...

" Spit and Image "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Spit and image
as a testament
to "What Is"
and "What
May Have Been"

only minimally
fictitious
yet uncannily
imaginative

like clandestined
tale tellers
while kayaking past
bulgy-eyed crocodiles
skulking on the Nile

surreptitiously
driving by
biopic rhinos
while on safari's
mind's eye

furtively gliding
sky high
in mid-air-fly-byes...

"Behind One-Way Mirrors"...

" Behind One-Way Mirrors "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Behind one-way mirrors
trying to steer
up-close intimacy
away from completion

like jeopardizing genies
"proofing" unreasonably
as not-what-they seem

yet a bit
more questioning
when making concessions

by throwing down
comment cards
from mind-boggled mobs

while simultaneously
rotating signet
rings around pinkies
and fidgeting with cuff links...

"Mentor and Nemesis"...

" Mentor and Nemesis "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Mentor and nemesis
muscularity
and contentiousness

as odd
or obsessive
come-ons

striking snares and tom-toms
kicking back fingers squeaking on strings

transcending grief
beneath and between
pressed organ keys

playing unaccompanied
after unmasking
comedy and tragedy

preening
and glowering
clawing it out...

"All Manner of Minutiae"...

" All Manner of Minutiae "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

All manner of minutiae
slowly sifting through
into the moody

angling to maximize views
of brain food on both new and used menus

in the role
of food-loving-
brouhaha Cupids

noshing on pickled sharks
while holding séances
for lesser-known artists

staying on topic
calling the shots
with lots of moolah...

"Turning Away"...

" Turning Away "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Turning away
eyebrows raised

artfully plain
clumsily aspirational

manipulative
and strange

time-delayed
stop-action
animation

embracing clichés
imitating caché
courtesy of ballet
minus the staging

tiptoeing away
slinking with humiliation...

" Spurred On "

" Spurred On "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Spurred on
while watching
and re-watching
running out the clock
by vast majorities
easily parodied
irresistibly hunky
mystically extreme
high-class fishing
unauthorized,
" Hook, Line and Sinker "
subtitled, " Sign Me Up,
Hush-Hush, Shoo-Shoo! "...

"Pressures of Succession"...

" Pressures of Succession "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Pressures
of succession
craning necks
of the incredible

reversing direction
while lip syncing
and hip swiveling
with relentless optimism

being stiffed by a villain
having left the building
replete with bleep-
worthy pseudonyms

on the streets
toting rap sheets
as sinking feelings

trying to tweak sleek criteria by getting a leg up instinctively...

"Aesthetically and Uncannily Pivotally Candid"...

"Aesthetically
and Uncannily
Pivotally Candid"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Aesthetically
and uncannily
pivotally candid
cautionary tales

neatly narrated
and unyokingly romantic
as inaudible commands
on the grand scale
of a hands-off stance

being manned
like cloak-and-dagger
tactical plans traveling
with both cash and an E-Z Pass
while outpacing forecasts
with bitten thumb nails...

"Conflicted Outspokenness"...

" Conflicted Outspokenness "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Conflicted outspokenness
provoking fist fights on ice
egos heatedly running wild

long-time rivalries
often maligned
by the secretly
self-righteous
at finish lines

coming to mind
heightened
like fossilized-
bird's-eye-
quasi-satellite
spies at first light

fanatically life-sized
epitomizing
ever-increasing
essentialized
spotlighted desire...

"Having Been Given the Go-Ahead"...

" Having Been Given
the Go-Ahead "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Having been given
the go-head
to an ever-closer-
up-and-coming
heirloomed
family menagerie
as gilded swans
and wine bottle shards
salvaged from memoirs
of eagles carved in mahogany
by mallet-wielding athletes
galloping past calico cats
atop peony-patterned
saddles on horseback...

"A Different Tack"...

" A Different Tack "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A different tack
shape-shifted
ephemerality

neither conceptually
inclined nor keyed
into the wildness
of a slurried hybrid

like allover slabs of white
portrayed by punch lines
applied across diagonally
scavenged scraps
of faded fabrics
and stark blacks

after gaining traction
across thickened strata
fissured by deeply magical
collaborative cracks
silvery foil clad...

"Recognized for Nonfiction"..,

" Recognized for Nonfiction "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Recognized
for nonfiction
divided
against itself
as patience
versus paralysis
seemingly long after
the fact

while stopping
just short
of disaster
after chaotically
scrambling
by strengthening flanks
and forcefully stating
high-stakes
aberrant behavior

ebbing away
sounding angry
gut-clutching
cliff-hanging
neither confirming
nor denying
stigmatatizaion

getting well underway
portraying
endless fascination
being played
out on stage
taken directly
from the front page...

"In the Midst"...

" In the Midst "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

In the midst
of a la-la
interim

well within
transitional
life-giving
hybridities

as smatterings
of strategies
like continual
coin flips
by makeshift
heavy hitters

while kicking in
to the "is-it-
or-isn't-it"
thumb flicks...

"Touching Down"...

" Touching Down "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Touching down
drawing crowds
downtown
with photostatted
captions

sporadically
mapped out
in leather-bound albums
stored in scaffolded attics

not long after
substantive repair
as soot and lampblack
on stained glass
seen or imagined

marked and tracked
across sealed cavities
beneath ceilings
of cracking plaster

fearing phantoms
with folded hands
ascending marble ramps
for penitents
scooting in wheelchairs...

"Hardly Definitive"...

" Hardly Definitive "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Hardly definitive
understudied figures
glimpsed like continental drift

while snowmen
are draped in tinsel
and dressed in leaped prints

seen caroling
year round
in top hats
commensurate
with stature

shamelessly sacrosanct
graying eerie cavalcades
with only a trace
of what it takes

across crumbling glaciers
minus explanation
nothing gained
radically underway...

"This Just In"...

" This Just In "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

This just in
with under
a minute

top-stitched
button-down
inverted-back
ombré-pattern
retro-jackets
as gotta-have
fall fashion

coming under
new management
in high-tech fabrics
overlaid with swagger

seen squarely
in the cross-hairs
once sweatshirt clad
'n' laid back

now at long last
all along
breathless
tangents
of flash sales
as standard
practice...

"Liquid Enigmas"...

" Liquid Enigmas "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Liquid enigmas
diving right in
to iconic horizons

mysteriously revealed
while toting a single goldfish
in an open glass bowl

likened to screen-saved phones
marooned but not alone
seen floating prone
on lunar-controlled
opposing tidal flows...

"Chance and Circumstance"...

" Chance and Circumstance "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Chance and circumstance
as talismanic facets
of magic lanterns
flashing amber

present and past
gridded chess matches
donning cocked caps
and mirrored glasses

attaching snippets of mags
to canvas mimicking
mummy's wrappings
cadaverous palettes
pallid linen jackals and cats...

"Even Bolder"...

" Even Bolder "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Even bolder
summoned up
extra pluck

propulsive
concussive
percussion

repeating
free-wheeling-
chest-beating gestures

with the slickness
of slapsticked
rites of passage

within highly attractive
repro-romance
topped and tailed

rousingly roared and pounded
bringing down the house
having swapped out
neither the straight
nor the narrow...

"Distantly Star Dusted"...

" Distantly Star Dusted "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Distantly star dusted
out of costume
camouflaged helmets on

funneling reconnaissance
from Mars as nuanced
first-hand knowledge

like name droppers
skittering along margins
of ink-splotched space logs
simulating give and take
wide-eyed and weightless...

"Worlds Away"...

" Worlds Away "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Worlds away
parting ways

self-pollinating
sensory deprivation

seamlessly blended
due-processed forensics

taking precedence
like yoked-together
fortune tellers

spreading out
from the epi-center
of increasingly welcome
line-stretching re-edits...

"Close Calls"...

" Close Calls "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Close calls
posted warnings
intense discord
last resort
hurricane forces
coming ashore
climatic juggernauts
rip-roaring squalls
lost in the afterthoughts
of a squeeze toy...

"Wildly Risky Rolls of the Dice"...

"Wildly Risky Rolls of the Dice"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Wildly risky
rolls of the dice
right outside
having been blind-
sighted by
snake eyes

post blowing
on the die
while turning
on a dime
like a random
device

being ordered online
pipped six-sided
strategy tactics
oldest classes
recordings of matches
as scattered variants
landing flatly...