by Suzán Jiván
A retelling
as a charming
but mischievous
depiction earning
good will as little
much of a good thing
opening with tenderness
toward critics
coming out to sing
both forbiddingly
and magesterially
as a chute between
appearance and reality
while pondering the creepy...
by Suzán Jiván
Stray rays
dimly and flimsily
misunderstood
by demographic slices
of the educated
aka self-cultivated
patrons of good
cheese stores
while drinking
specialty coffees
as aromatic guides
to the easily satirized
with the reliable irony
of the Ultimate Frisbee
as reaffirming as
a prickly, yet witty,
mini-disposition...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark, Danielle and Eric
Unconvincingly
focusing on the leary
at the behest
of the legendary
unanswerable questions
while posing an electively
mellow resonance
as if in a lesser
permanent collection
lacking intention...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark, Danielle and Eric
Offering a hefty nexus
of the incredible
including selections
with particular attention
paid to energetic texts
sent to a plethora
of close friends
from across
the broad band
of a tantric diagram
drawn on a radiant canvas
of the indiscriminately digital...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark, Danielle, & Eric
After intermission
it felt like ages
before
anyone dared
to applaud
as if in an encore
while nodding
toward
a soaring voice
with searing poise...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
Multidiscilpinary
high-pitched and vapid
with a systematical latitude
veering toward a breathlessly
impressionistic endeavor
with intrinsic conviction
while skittering
across a bowed instrument...
by Suzán Jiván
Mom and Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
An airy ambience
with a preponderance
of transcendental blue yonder
and evocative white columns
emblematic of classical grandeur
inhabiting the imaginative
theatricality of our grey matter...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
Pushing tradition
with a limited ritual
while losing out
in an all-about
steep discount
offered early
and often
just
as fast
as spam...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
Unleashed
charging
and screaming
into the bleak
seemingly
revisiting
one
of everything
demanding
to be
deadheaded
while self-
seeding
into
the shrubbery
mimicking
an ever-
green screen...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
Signaling an unexpected intention
further aggravating tension
for so-called adverse possession
of the death penalty
and the uncertainty
of casting a drug-
addled sideways glance
at the haplessly drug-addled
and matter-of-fact dispatches
of clamorously-random
circumstances of long-lost heirs...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
Pretty clearly
emerging
as a hit
in a new edition
coming soon
to a theater
near you
as a continuous stream
spawning spinoffs
into the self-taught...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
Rich ambiguity
with the wit
and wisdom
of a well-
written script
wriggling into
a revisionistic
transition
then abuptly
becoming
the lumpy mush
of a slam-dunk
oneupmanship...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
With a sense of depth
perception
generated by gestures
in varying dimensions
of arrowheaded emblems
invented as mostly-forgettable
like venerably-rebellious
muscle engines
running on a less
uppity web
as collaborative
lap-top avatars
that automatically
and emphatically
" duck and cover "...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
An intense evening
almost guaranteed
having recently
made a plea
for a hefty
full-length piece
of skullduggery
while quarantined
in an increasingly-
incomplete academia
with plucky strings
in prize-winning " D "...
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
Geometry rules
executed
with drafting tools
stimulating
newish and wierdly-
numinous
tantric diagrams
enhanced
with large-scale
bare-chested dance...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
Unacknowleged carnage
as in the happenstance of a "wack"
fused with the fortuitously intuitive
long strongarm of a mobster
thick, bass and swampy
contained within the tainted
restraints of an amiable embrace...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
As in any downturn
to stand a chance
you must enchant
increased demand
with an alchemist's
command
for an already
maligned
and vilified
supply side
to benignly
lower it's
divined
and
fixed
price...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
Undeniably powerful and genuinely
moving too coming soon to a city
near you including future opportunities
to bare portentous forecasts filled
with foreclosure-ridden ilks
along with the fixative upticks
of diminishing risks...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric...
With heart and authenticity
sustained by strangers
and a pervasive taste
for re-creation
by playing
a good
girl who
pretends
to be
bad as
the razzle-
dazzle
seemingly
fails...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric
Undergoing
change
after a some-
what pop
acknowledgement
of an energy-
draining old flame
with dark
flaring nostrils
letting loose
a profusion
of world-weary-
wounds suffused
with a monument-
ally aloof cruelness...
by Suzán Jiván
With the longing
of a gypsy moth
as an ordinary
folding and unfolding
of powdery wings
both opening and closing
by bright moonlight
each and every night...
" What was the flight like? "
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
Myself
as a nest
with a pen-
chant
for re-
invention
featuring
off-beat
shape-
shifting
and
unrestrained
amorous
adaptations
in compelling ways
with an enablingly
creative vein
portrayed
as a romantically
hand-drawn
and imaginative
animation...
by Suzán Jiván
Less experienced
in a front-row seat
while keeping
on eye
on the scene
of otherworldly
hummings
and cluckings
in accompaniment
to looking
out for the lovely
in a multi-
cultural
cross-
current
crux...
by Suzán Jiván
Less experienced
in a front-row seat
while keeping
on eye on the scene
of otherworldly
hummings and cluckings
in accompaniment
to looking
out for the lovely
in a multi-
cultural
cross-
current
crux...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
In the studio
was the proof
including two
all-inclusive
figure groupings
skipping blithely along
with diaphanous fabric
gathering all along
notoriously hallucinatory
vanishing points...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
An invigorating
arrival
striking strings
and pounding keys
on the global scene
proceeding
in single file
all the while
stoking
a soulful
and ongoing
solo crescendo...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ,
Kenny and Jimmy,
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
Improvised
by inviting
the finely
high-brow
with hi-tech
synchronized
devices
and widening
tactile eyes
while listening
to beguiling
wireless
sirens sing...
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ,
Kenny and Jimmy,
Mark and Danielle
and Baby Eric as well...
Is it virtual
lyrical
or
resurgent
or
per
chance
like
the
rarified air
of
a
stratospheric
log
jam
that
began
as
an
intrinsically
horrific
cosmic
rift?
by Suzán Jiván
for Rebecca and Russ,
Kenny and Jimmy,
Mark and Danielle,
and Baby Eric as well...
Studying blunders
becoming as prophetic
as the current foment
against the best bet
both ad hoc and infectious
like a jester's misstep
in a split second...
Mysteries surrounding
an ennobling
dialogue of sorrow
in response
to the goings on
of love's noir
as a longful memoir
spawning
the whipsaw of a new mourn...
by Suzán Jiván
Breaking through
to " The Truly "
with a still-raspy
voice from screaming
repeatedly while clapping
and stamping as a full-tilt
attempt to squelch
the quelling expression,
" All Right Already! "...
" Hierarchically Sleek and Modern "
An eerily
abstract
immersive
intransigence
of the hierarchically
sleek and modern
astonishingly
accomplished,
" No-Holds-Bard "
with artistic aplomb...
by Suzán Jiván
Scene gaining
in a finger-
shaped takeover
of the latest
fraying
of the states
demonstrating
reining in
the gains
of runaway
frustrations
on a boldly-
updated
stage
throughout
the opening
phases
of a darkly
funny play...
by Suzán Jiván
Once in a lifetime
elusive types
serve as havens
for compound
combinations
of concentrations
of corporeal exports
for courtships
of amour gone wrong...
by Suzán Jiván
Not all is lost
as the force
of the dawn
comes roiling across
an inordinately fiery
line of sight in real time
as a sci-fi tie that binds
our unrealized daily lives...
for My Family of Educators
Taking turns
having to learn
interception returns
surpassing career
averages in gender and class
sparing scandals laid bare
at the last combative
off-balance sack...
The
biggest
hurdle
is virtually
unknown
in ceremonial
clamorings
preparing
to act
and react
to what-
ever
happens
after
being
banned
from
a gray
area...
What a wink
often means
as an initial
greeting
so to speak
unmentioning
pleas underneath
for a tweaked
secretly reeling
blinking grief...
by Suzán Jiván
Colluding beautifully
with exclusive delicacies
still moving in and out
of soothing exclusivity
while smoothly toggling
between unique opportunity
and simultaneously-obscene
luxury atop defiantly
multifarious and antic
dismantling of nagging
banality and disparate actuality...
by Suzán Jiván
The chatting
class
flaunted
by a lecture-
style
performance
with footage
from techno-
waves
superceding
public space
with pain-
staking
open-
source
curating
designed
while
in isolation
during
a cordial
conversation
with a tie-
dyed
rain-
bow
spiral...
by Suzán Jiván
Kindred spirits
never dismissed
proudly-weathered
as intellectuals
amid breakneck
pleas for redemption
juxtaposed
with lessons
of longevity
vintagely
swinging
toward
otherworldly
cryptic visions
of an imminent
apocalypse...
by Suzán Jiván
Intermittently hinting
at slick cleverness
with voluptuous intensity
repeatedly ready
to experiment
with visual gems
as reflections
of pride and casualness
just like life-in-the-making
gratifying gimlet eyes
self-described as untitled haiku...
by Suzán Jiván
Obsessively confessional
once poetic, now grotesque
like an ephemeral pied-piper charm
radically changed by art
within the drop-jaw-hard-core
awareness of loss...
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
A saintly feeling
ending the biblical
as a beginner
on the fly
with the pre-
emptive venom
of a daredevil
and a frenzy
of momentum.
" Pushed on 3-D "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Pushed on 3-D
compilated
on screen
paying
the premium
while public
potshots
are seen
as hardly
uncommon.
by Suzán Jiván
for Ishamarr Swan
Me in midair
strong storied
with phantasmagorical
barnstorming and allegorical
importance all rumpled
by obstructive cumulus.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
The benchmark
of a party
famously
promising
to "drain
the swamp"
but
threatening
to tarnish
a closely-
watched
deadlock
in a headscarf.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Still
life
church
spire
satisfied
with
the
schemes
of
life
where
fripperies
or
the
like
are
seen
as
trifles.
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
More clouds
than sun
on a Sunday
as storms
spread
wet weather
in a wedding
dress
of counterfeit
protection...
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Naked City
Barenaked Ladies
Alice in Chains
Slayer making
num-num noises
with poison
having no choice.
" Wielding Evil "
by Suzán Jiván
for Linda Erlich, PhD
Swigging from a nifty
drought while tossing
off a little of the lofty
by wielding evil
in a needy
realm of immediacy.
