by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A new light to the wider
urbanized
sprawling across
lifetimes
of mile markers
like prickly matriarchs
emblazoned
by bushwhackers
retreating
from the elite
closest
to the city
freely or cheaply
as multi-tiers
blanketing the region
with debunkings
of the myth
of one
as too
vulnerable...
by Suzán Jiván aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Lingering over achy phrases
as sophisticated domains
gone crazy sounding tacky
like tasteless reality
sung ruefully as husky and bluesy
flotsamy and blubbery
with satirical fragility
and random casualties
grotesquely hackneyed
as wannabes with prominent scars
on ornamented bodies
of found objects
like epoxied hierarchies
of possibilities at least initially
as anomalies involving
bleaching and teasing
coexisting arguably
as wiry wigs of irony...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A wealthy
backer
aggressively
attacking
the eeewww
factor
captured as chapters
of revulsion in matters
as shouting matches
for ick factors
in full houses
of haphazardly
quasi-autobiographical
smackings
of animality
graphically portrayed
with an assassin's twang
while flooding the stage
with gross displays
unashamedly
followed by elation
in a parlor game
of disgusting charades...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
With tingly pleasure unretrenched
as tellingly celestial with an unbridled
sense in extremis bound together
in intrepid text-free spreads
with chapter headings
of incessant assuredness
in indelible complexities
of multidirectional reflections
ecstatically brandished
as an exacting scrapbook
of poetic couples
squiggling in the clinches...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Between finger and thumb
dun-colored sculptures
pleasantly jumbled
all of a sudden
posthumously
loved
in burdensome tumult
in watercolor studies
of supplicants
sensibly enough
like newcomers
entirely in the nude
in casts that include
idiosyncratic humor
as pharmaceutical
cures
as tear-jerkers
of absurdity
seeping outward
overpoweringly...
by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Slow moving
mostly nocturnal
blending in
perfectly
with a good
supply of prey
in between parted
front legs
in a genus capable
of decay
as a papery egg
case
in a wooden
chamber containing
communally chewed
food unsuitable
for wingless
forms
feeding on fungi
algae and lichens
while anchored
by nymphal skin
with abdominal
segments
split down the back
into the thorax
remaining attached
with visible wing pads
as a praying mantid...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A welter of mayhem
building momentum
from a glower to a pout
hands down, spellbound
underground
lilac walls, red doors
just, " Because "
living by wits
in flash-lighted pictures
and the like undisguised
anchored by uncanny eyes
in pursuance of mankind
like tough guys
hobbled by black and white
at first light
As memories of ice
at first sight
with razor-bladed vibes
designed entirely
as snippets from diaries
incessantly reprinted
republished and revisited
as unexhibited inhibitions
in pale pink, light green
and deep lavender
refractions
of extravagance
trickling
in hour-
glasses
coated
in wax...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Busy amping up with flash-
backs in a strange land
foreshadowed
by glamorous attractions
of alchemy
in admiring eye
blinks
while hiccuping
blindly
woefully
unrecognized
sniffing and pinching
tge predictably grisly
in the midst of whimsy
above the groove
while digging in
decisively
like the two-timing
rarely harmonized
velvety quiet
with the clear delight
of a youthful reminder
hard-wired as fictionalized
grim statistics on a predictable grid
of silhouetted brilliance
intrinsically dimmed
by double-crossed victims
as inconsistent sentimentalists...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Mark
A passel of honors on the long list
of the glorification of war
as a short story
filled with morphine hits
Changing hands in an armistice
of the hellishly compelling
brownish reds intimately connected
with the lethal letters
of the cleverly senseless
giving up their dead as learned lessons
crammed into a head
immersing itself in revenge
at the multiplex...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
The barren
expanse
of a hilly
wasteland
with gruesome
flashbacks
of ragtag
top brass
swooping
over the area
frighteningly
baby faced
shell-shocked
and raving
battered
blatantly
at strategic
locations
of futile
engagements
in a foreign
language
with machinations...
by Suzân Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
The perception of inevitability
permeated
by the incapable decimated
by hard labor
bound for the stage
as an adaptation of , " Hairspray "
like a bequeathed beauty queen
in a nation
weary of the weird bring criticized
widely
as glittery and incisive
in capering dance and brass
fanfares
with advanced ticket sales
for the jaggedly
handsome
and the raggedly
romantic
as slicked-back
shaggy
shaping the fragile
played
dazzlingly culminating
with a standing ovation
in harmonic celebration...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Forward-hooked horns, calf born
in highlands exclusive harems
distinctive patterns as scarce
aggregates of bachelor males
curving backward in a darkening
arc of miombo short bodied
knock-kneed scraggly
next to the camel
Largely adapted as an extract
from plants like tussock grass
built rather small dewlap at jaw
equally long, subordinate
S-shaped horns forequarters
loping along, migratory
ridged horns, U-forms
offspring born
Waterless wards, sizable hoards
cow-like horns, knobby boss
somewhat longer returning to taller
spiral horned dorsal borders
spotted torsos, legs tawny thornbush
erect crest, flexing chevron X...
by Suzán Jiván aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Flight feathers black, but white
under primaries brown
juveniles along shorelines
around a yellow eye
large carcasses tiny larvae
big cavities hatching
through Sahara waiting for scraps
shaggy ruff dusky pink
bone-eating revealing underwings
raucous screams nest linings
mammalian skin and hair
feeding on hares and dik-diks
monitor lizards drinking
preening inconspicuously
hidden heavy bellies
sub-desert stick nests at rest
red defenses graceful descents
shallow nests semi-desert
watershed empty steppes
snatched nestlings
livestock pens
compulsive theft
rivers edge
long crests
lapping
wakes
seizing
eye-rings
dung
beetles...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Haunting
the outer
beaches
as most
migrants
in the interior
short thick bills
in winter
mournful whistle
dropping
in the middle
long distance
slimmer wing tips
rich whistle
golden-plover
snowy piping
killdeer
broken wing
flopping
mostly orange
white collar
field mark
obvious
underparts
mobbed
dark-tipped
whistle
clear "wheeep"
wave-washed
rocks
harsh sharp
foreparts hard
"kwip" stout bill
over winter
teetering bobbing
uncommonly
solitary
barred underparts
muddy pond
bush top
stodgy bulky body
marbled
flocks of godwits
fairly common
on one spot
whistles of wandering
on and on
whinnying trilling
early in winter
darkening still...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Like
an after-
thought
as strength
by default
varying
enormously
back
and
forth
eyes
crossing
into
relentless
formulas
out
of proportion
on hand
as freelance
petal patterns
that vanish
clearly
scattered
off campus
by a pathological draft...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
Rising
and falling
robin-like
but hoarser
as a dry call
while foraging
along tall
cottonwoods all
year long
Waddling on lawns
short tails green gloss
gurgle whistle rough trill
spiky bill high-pitched twitter
dark whisker dense brush
buzzy buff fluttering up...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Raw
and
raucous
coming
to the fore
ground out
and topped off
at the epitome
of artistry
as paradoxical
spots
of goofy
honesty
applied to white
like stated
desire
in a staid
place
of, " Home,
Home
on the Range "
with the density
of dangly
dipsticks
stippled with drips
daubs and dots...
by Suzán Jiván aka Mom-Mom Suzán
Hairpin twists of coincidence
with implausible principles
of nip-n-tuck
not soon
enough
seemingly brittle
as one tough chick
of funny money
all of a sudden
unscrupulously looping
in gestural movements
gone askew
covered in tattoos
in a lurid romp
past
nagging problems
with reasonable markers
snap and snarl...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Inshore waters spawning
dorsal and caudal fins forked
much sought caught midpoint trawling
overhanging predation manmade
distorted proportions of body forms
swift water heavily silted
turbidly intolerant
dark markings dissolved oxygen
Corners of jaws unusually long
at midwater lips thick rounded tips
small rivers brackish habitats
dusky to black chubs gathering
course gravel aborted courtship
off shore...
by Suzán Jiván
aka Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Boldly
in the open
on poles
bright rufous
shoulders
juvenile
wing-linings
thighs
streaked
down below
narrow
two-toned
scarce and local
visible only in display
puffed up rapidly drumming
wing thumping, "cluck", rusty rump
sharp, "chik", harsh, "check"
red-bellied distended upended in head
chattering rattle ladder-backed
white patch, red cap, cactus canyon
barred on back, black-capped carrion
overlapping black bib whining wheezy
"Deee-deeer, deee-deeer, deee-deeer"
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
A fragrant
mixture
self-seeding
on spreading
leaves
as silver
filigrees
of Artemisia
with chives
and thyme
as stoneflies
For a moment
biting violins
both as logical
and inexplicable
like a pilgrimage
left unfinished
Ably depicted
as straight-
forwardly
as a poet
and mystic
of the lickety-split
At a crowded
vigil
for prowling
animals
as artifacts
of the wary
in fecal
matter
between
two camps
pliant
and groovy
in a mirrored
universe
on the multiple
moons
of Jupiter
Like widely-
separated
compound eyes
with projections
called, " Styles "
on the undersides
Considered
primitive
with slender
cerci
on thread-
like
antennae
Simple
biting
predacious
cycles
on stone-
bottomed
streams
cross-
crevicing
forward
facing
torpid
prey...
by Suzán Jiván aka
Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy, & Eric...
Even
more
hauntingly
formidable
as sapphire
crystal
re-imagined
as amethyst
in a pyramidal
prism
of vitreous
silica
simulating
hydrologic
cycles
of vital
electro-
lytes
in between
Isles
correspondingly
re-aligned
as a crystalline
skyline
in hard type
openly mined...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
Giant damselfly
fore-and-hind
wings in flight
plucking spiders
large eyes
nymphs climb
claspers
on abdomen
still grasping
stagnant
native lands
club tailed...
by Suzán Jiván
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Spit and polish lavishly stocked
in an avante garde salon
of the remarkable
holding out for promise
presciently conjured
like the bygone
preoccupied
at the same time
identically in exile
with a quadruple bow and jabot
among the oldest ingeniously folded
in alternating rows striking a pose
as a shaggy coat grizzled gray
tapering at the base
speckled red
becoming widespread
standing erect
broad head digging claws
conspicuously moist
and noisy
like a swooping swarm...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Powerfully built
distinctly ringed
nearly spotless
with springing and climbing abilities
uniformly tawny hindquarters
nocturnal forage fox-like proportions
arid savanna, tall grass...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Roots and tubers
with tender shoots
dependent on lagoons
and a small white goose singing,
"Coor-a-loo, coor-a-loo "
while facing intruders
with eclipsing
plumage...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy, & Eric
Awkwardly akimbo
fully uninhibited
like the carnal and demonic
insights from scholars
overseeing departments
of opalescent shards
from demolished hospitals
for auteur prophets
in neat arcs
sheepishly departed
like a rickety car...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
In the years before
invigorating portraits
with the past roaring
and squaring off
as thoroughly absorbing
with something more
converging on a corner
against forces
of mind-numbing conformity
never crossed...
by Suzán Jiván
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric
Within the cozy
confines
of the only
place
of its kind
on the spine
of a sideline
swingin' on by
with the arrival
of a shim-
sham-shimmy
as a real-time link
lovably scrappy
cohesively dramatic
cooing on ground
head bowed, grey crown
conceal, surround...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Gotten on
enough
soapboxes
from grand
to modest
and on
and on
having gone
way too far
as a grande dame
with the peek-a-boo
quality of overarching
works in progress
while on the cusp
of possibility
like tongue-in-cheek
measured in feats
of captivity
with limited
experience
in idiosyncrasies
coinciding uneasily
with the bottom line
of domestic life...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Other People's Secrets "
Other people's
secrets
contrived with an insider's
vibe
strikingly destabilized
while getting
wise
to the absurdities
of life
Ferociously nearby
locked
in tightly
on consecutive
nights
with bloody
fistfights
bestowed
as a world-
wide title
Imbibing
like
a life-sized
wild drinker
in the bacchanals
of the ' 60s
with an occasional
martini
and an accented
flip
of the ambitious
exotic and unfamiliar
when and if
caught in the middle
with an interest
in an idealistic uplift
from a quixotic beginner
in intoxicants...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca & Russ
Kenny and Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Nearly Nonstop "
Nearly nonstop
as an inventive
concoction
of wit and charm
with subsequent
mockery
Lost in revelry
unsettlingly skinny
like melons in spring
roughly touching
gently sinuous
Grey-green
laid singly
in ravines
satiny sheen
hillside
faraway heights
Magical properties
buoyed by stream
bulging streams
scorched pieces
jagged peaks...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for The Graffs, McGraths,
Pavolkos, Stopeks, Teppers
and Schmahls as well...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Gently Appealing "
Gently appealing
less radical
than originally planned
with the bravura of magic
as a convoluted tale
like an iconoclastic pastor
as a quirky slacker
for the must-haves
of blandness
practicing acting
as mild-mannered
has-beens
forever on tap
for virtuosos
of so-so no-nos
Enough to glow
at the base
of a cleaved face
on a basal plane
lulled by a volcano
in a conical shape
with an oozing crater
Greater and lesser
yellowlegs
with whitish marks
on dark upper parts
running then stopping
while nesting
in a shallow depression
with bits of shells and pebbles
streakings on heads
barrings on breasts
underparts awash
low staccatos
spotted Godwits
distinctly larger...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
Performed on YouTube
as, " Cashed the Heart Jack "
Cashed the heart Jack
and played another heart
while thrusting a partner
in an interlocking plot
after leading the 13th heart
and seeking solace
in an armory after piercing the heart
with submarginal eyespots
on a red distal bar, sleepy orange
iridescent copper, territorial posture
wooded swamp, cobweb quarry
Masterpieces of Ming
hard to see entering the scene
hand scrolling smoky calligraphy
above the tundra and hummocks
fast becoming a summit
in great numbers at dusk
turning the back of his head to her
as a wood duck wings tucked under
grass or brush green speculum
tail tipped up head pump white clutch...
by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
for My Mom & My Papa
Mary-Ellen, Duffy
Erin & Ross
Sandy & Dan
Jack
Margot & Bill
Charlene & John
Rebecca & Russ
Kenny & Jimmy
Danielle, Mark & Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Often to a Fault "
Often to a fault
in a potential windfall
as a quirk in the tax law
with drawbacks of exasperation
while puttering in a haze
of fading constraints
into the ostentatious
returning of favors
like lingerie
that goes without saying
as a starting place
greatly outnumbering paintings
in a constant deluge of polarizing faces
Legendarily intense, terrifyingly
oversized staged in unending dives
with indecipherable movie rights
No longer ungodly
in a silly costume
as an option
while leaping
off the pages
of self-identification
as a former curator
after battling a plague
with a blurb
as an explanation
of conflict or shame
centuries later
Collapsing
time and space
as a cross-legged
fall from grace
with intoxicating
scarification
and bristling
ostentation
as an outcrop
of conglomerates
besotted
by bygone
brachiopods
as fossils...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Well healed as site-
specific and always
riveting
with an acid tongue
and droll delivery
full of jokey
but largely
charm-free
preconceived
theater
like featured
premieres
of follies
with an underlying
high-minded
muddle
in the middle
of nothing
but the monotony
of a feckless freckle
accessed as imperfection
instead of adolescent innocence
Slyly reinvented, increasingly
smothering and bewilderingly belittling
Directly in the sweet
spot of an odyssey
as an emerging body
inadvertently
exposed to free uploads
acquiring their own potency
with blistering notes
in long-running shows
as a clown known
all over the globe
In empathy
with unknown
enemies
while settling
for an unmentionable
tragic mashup
with a rotating cast
Ambitiously staged as aging
giving free reign to fascination
and poetic observation
as opposed to naysayers
in semi-stages of pseudo-sacred
waxings and wanings of gansta strains
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
A fearlessly original eye
unprepared for the honeyed
hostility and acidic pleasantries
of an old sweetheart
like a brand-new motto
long since forgotten
loudly and clearly
in a steady stream
of placid freedom
beautifully acted
and carefully adapted
to changing realities
as a subconscious scream
From pitiable to downright admirable
bidding farewell to tiny white lies
as unlikely reminders
for the population at large
Amid the big willingness to live
within a strict grid system
as hardly limited
like granitic culprits
of the familial
linked between misery
and authenticity
when pushed through a straw
slack-jawed during courtship
with soothing wooing
becoming brutish
with both dewiness
and ridicule as amusement
Posturing with an attitude
of sourness
with an edge of hysteria
and a steely sense of self
as tellingly cherish-able
when animated with wise-
cracking veracity
as completely pip-squeaky...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
If you missed the Grand Gala
while trying to catch the bare
necessities whizzing
by at high speed
past masterpieces
against flickering screens
of scenes of catastrophes
in smoking ruins of black bamboo
as a cartoonist of the venal and foolish
with the satiric draftsmanship
of a non-conformist
engendering a kaleidoscopic
agenda of a sceptic
like a former director
of, " Let's Get it Together! "
In new digs going, " Pfffft ! "
after waking up in sleepy streets
without rhyme or reason
in makeshift seats
devoted to regal thrones
navigating through space
in solos with the focus
of calibrated hocus-pocus
as ways to escape
the fast-paced by snaking
across baggage-ladened stages...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " It Needs to Be Repeated "
It needs to be
repeated deliberately
on a hand-held scale
in an expanse
from decades past
loosely branched
with downy hairs
pairing as aromatic
axils and bracts
overwintering
with purplish lips
tinged with anise
in pine barrens
steeped in pineapple
tea sprinkled with tansy
Spanning dense mats
along a central crease
of prominent pink
as a refreshing drink
with richly sweet
conical seeds
prickly, bristly
Seemingly endless
sculptural splendor
with a penchant for caresses
subtly and directly
mixed with blousy figures
difficult to grasp
as harrowing histories
handsomely cross-hatched
and profusely patterned
in a familial tapestry
of fraying strands...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Best Suits Her Nature "
Best suits her nature matching faces
with names as part of declarations
busily and consistently
akin to a polished mirror
sunset tinted at a high pitch
Yet prevailing as passively slack-jawed
like paint splatter whetted at random
on a horizontal arm trapped
where spectacles prevail
as stippled patches
of yellow and amber
in a canon
Lumpen yet shimmery
with opalescence
while slouching around
a sultry sculpture
ensnared by a prankster
with a parodistical grin
fixed in the 50's
First and last
like a rhinestoned
dumpster diver
with a thorny side
and lethal bite
exclusively
at night
ebonylike
predicated
on the sublime
as a reminder
of carefree
scrapbooked
lives
With more
than one
way to wear
a bath towel
unchallenged
forever on tap
as a pastel
palette
stretched out
then tightly
wound around
brash and brassy
as a bombastic
raised hand
notwithstanding
demonic clashes
and blaring fanfare...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Will Also Underscore "
Will also
underscore
taking over overseeing
interactive access
to lavender lilacs
and notions
of masculinity
both overdue
and a bit
behind the times
like a parade
of familiar names
along the way
as an extrapolation
of the seemingly tame
and unstraight risqué
Ripped from today
toppling over
a big bank
crouching over
a dead opponent
drawing
more crowds
with unseemly
immediacy
and authenticity
long since
eclipsed
by a staunch
supporter
in a small
audience
as best
of all
some-
times
point-
less
like
a
clothes-
horse
sewing
wild
oats
Marvelously
flexible
and full
of possibility
enough
to make
you dizzy
as a half-
dressed
odalisque
on the periphery
piled high
with frippery
and festooned
in striped
pantaloons
Plying
the overlap
between
the artificial
and the natural
with a butterfly catch
held tightly scratched
and incised scarifyingly
fighting for release
while nose diving
into a white
cube with holes
in its ceiling
and a finger-
nails-on-the-chalk-
board feeling...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Deadpan Smirk "
With a deadpan smirk
increasingly nerve-
rattling as sardonic gags
and antagonistic shtick
as a study in bliss
while still a bit gimpy
and deliberately oblivious
as if lost in a blizzard
after beginning to fizzle
with acidic witticisms
and head-spinning
verbal artillery
like scrolls
of poetry
in rococo
willed
into existence
nimbly
and exquisitely
as the funnily familiar
scene in high-rise buildings
defined by giant slides
corkscrewing confusedly
while ejecting viewers
for wearing birthday suits
still damp, stinging
and dazed, but grinning
after a wicked twist
with the privileged
devised as brilliant
when booked in overnights
bored, violated and cranky
like an emulation
of sensory deprivation
susceptible to strains
of mayhem in a meditative state
Meticulously painted
as an indication of gravitating
to the strange and pagan
as famously deranged
and eerily quiet
while silently reading,
" Keep to the Right " ...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
and Eric...
Into decline burdened by growing
needs
under staggering shields
yielding
to swelling ranks
of supposed saviors
thrown
into danger
as a huge
redo
in a frieze-
like wound
of youth
and beauty
In an appoint-
ment only
space
as a suite
of galleries
for buzzing
honey bees
being
packed up
in mobile
structures
squeezed
between whirring wings
laced with curry
and emptied of nectar
while taking
place in stages
of mono-
graphed installations
made
of stiffening clay
shaped
by haughty curators
in order
to forestall change
While exhibiting their
favorites
in anticipation
of re-installation
within tents
and under umbrellas
that keep coming up
as entitlements
renamed, "Untitled"
coinciding
with the unsigned
nearly three times the size
of unoccupied and preoccupied
like legislators on wavers
made to hallucinate
during a driving reign...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...
Could be a landmark
applied to people
like ultraviolet rays
with diverse inclinations
in a prestigious chamber
with sounds of nature
nonplussed by tumult
in funereal black
difficult to capture
as a panoply
of slippery facets
like oil on canvas
partially dismantled
in exasperation
Partly financial
folded and printed
with polka dots
on gouache
while wresting
and boxing
on a table top
for art lovers
of found objects
As absurdist
monuments
like punchy murals
dwarfed by buildings
with infectious buoyancy
along a corse boardwalk
with passing throngs
in worldly phenomenons
on concrete blocks
Affirming and reassuring
while engaging with the world
like converging sightlines
for really bog ideas
In an unbroken wave of adoration
as uncontainable vibrato
in the long-awaited
paying attention
to a sprawling creation
behind a ground-breaking
purple curtain in a tender duet
with a sift melody
ranging easily between affection
and arabesque
in retrospect on a dialectical
contemporary set forever and ever...
for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " At Once Romantic
and Commonsensical "
At once romantic
and commonsensical
remaining
essentially locked
in sterile delinquency
with troubling greetings
punctuated
by a dangling shard
of alarm as a problem
of subplots
in an anonymous
peer-review process
Not to be confused
as a curtain
raiser fairing
only
slightly better
than wishing
in vain
for a paper
airplane
to fly someday
over
the rainbow
with puns
and wordplay
showing
off anyway
that goes
without saying
all for the asking
in a bubble bath
Sure to emerge
visible
and palpable
with the feel
of gravel
as just
one more
habit
on a care-
fully
constructed
path
gradually
revealing
a view
of a square
gathering
momentum
in a romantic
landscape
of volcanic sand
and the hiss
of an aerosol can...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for My Mom, My Papa
Mary-Ellen, Duffy,
Erin, Ross, Daniel, Jack
Bill, Margot, Charlene, John
Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...
Cartwheeling as phosphorescent stars
in rumors first heard
to heed the need to sightsee
and eavesdrop
as a starlit harlot and starry-eyed artist
On a former loading dock
standing apart from the harsh
with Johnnie Walker
in acknowledgement
of a Grey Goose far removed
as a muse
super hard and deeply fearful
Leaning
over black granite
carefully
grandstanding
with excited
chatter
as a flapping
bat
being ravaged
at a newsstand
Under
close surveillance
on a yoke-
backed chair
carved
out of a single
block
of marble
as seen
on a blog
like
continuity
in a limited
series
of perfect
acquisitions
filling the gap
as a major absence
depicting importance
in water and chalk...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Performed on YouTube
as, " Clearly Over a Tidy Churn "
Clearly over
a tidy churn
with terse
drumming
and plenty
to work with
as layers
of artifice
and cross-
hatched
accents
to march
finding
traction
in flickering
contraptions
swelling
with rain
rooted
at center
stage
On a
woody
peg
naked
in cross
section
with scented
edges
silvery
when fresh
dense
and spire-
like
attaining
heights
widely
triangular
pyramidal
and lacy
with raised
scars
bracketed
and bent
backwards
blackened
with age
Borne
in pairs
wingless
cone bearing
silver haired
ovoid acorns
scaly cups
rough
pubescent
shrub
rusty
stubby
lustrous
southern
curled
under...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...
Shaping up as a target
for mismatched partners
in a fatalistic broody place
with baby blues trained
on a fixed horizon line
of mysterioso silence
with bleachy-white teeth
framed as if waking
with a gun-slinging stranger
from the information age
with spellchecked gestures and gaits updated in Super 8
like the culprits of aging
laying waste
to the super-accommodating
Flirting with allowing
as series of flower-powers
as interpretively superb
and dazzling, but risk averse
beginning in miniature
juxtaposed with lyrical gifts
surpisingly magical
with a tempestuous side
of deft fluidity freewheeling
as a supple balancing act
of feisty excitement capitalizing
on the extremely frightening
by sidestepping stereotypes
like sweet pliable themes
of pure technique
becoming big and brawny...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Anton, Florence, Mary-Ellen,
Duffy, Erin, Ross, Daniel, Jack,
Bill, Margot, Charlene, John,
Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy,
Mark, Danielle, & Eric...
In a hard-hitting senescence
of self-defense suspicious
of more or less
as larger and flatter
cells of arterial plaque
becoming overly active
and churning out
patchy malignancies
like relationships
between aging
and inflammation
fostering getting shorter
in self-styled hindsight
outshined by an imposing
atmosphere of fear
threaded together
with senses of dread
fed by a profusion
of grueling shoots
with lethal tubers
inducing wilted
pistillates
musky heads
and necrotic cells
then dropping
reams of fertile seeds
onto blackening fields
as vernal inevitability
following dormancy
with a redeeming alchemy...
by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...
Performed on YouTube
as, " Something of a One-Note "
Something of a one-note Bellwort
drooping at the end of a forking stem
discarding the stalkless leafy portions
as yellow bells dangling beneath
slender arching stems-berries red
Hearing ineffable echoes
soft and feathery as past and present
laments in threadlike torment
mixed with myth littered with prescriptives of the apocalyptic
In a straight-up impersonation
of a toppling stage
at the end of an unsustainable
rainbow for the unnamed
on opening day plagued
by power plays
becoming upstaged
by a miming narrator
with an amazingly
pliant spine
and a precise
choreography
of the eyes...
