Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Really Didn't Want Kafka

" Really Didn't Want Kafka "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Really didn't want Kafka
finding Florida on the contrary
tearing apart shocking bonds
of warmth and charm


precisely as opposites
like unwilling partners
of the self-conscious
in a first novel
as final volumes


prices start
with the absence of comedy
shying away with white out
like sibling rivals
obsessively whining


in a house divided
unstintingly scrutinized
while spewing birthrights
transcribed like rewrites


thereby denying
apparently mindless
misidentified entitlements
structurally codified
as perfectly fine


entirely unrealized
yet extremely timely
while earning stripes
in a final demise


like a sniper of childhood
gone wild with anxiety
by way of the knife
with a built-in light...

Approximate Running Times

" Approximate Running Times "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Approximate running times
for playwrights at the end of life
left feeling lighter with surprises
like glinting comic relief of singer-
songwriters schmoozing unsung lives


dramatically
making the case
for music labels
sometimes devastated
onstage as hard labor


finding conceit distasteful
in adaptation to the fatal
as impassioned evocations
only a stone's throw away


during police raids
whose star us fading
having concocted
blurring of the lines
ensnared by desire


contrived by,
"not quite"
manipulated by,
"much of the same"
but, "not always"
like icy-fingered slights
of rat-raced satires


as scant dialogue
in unidentified environs
of isolation having survived
mechanical bull rides


like triangles nearing the eye
safely gliding ever tightening
smashing adversaries into scrap
in final battles as spectacular
last stands befalling the land


aimlessly dancing
with knockout whammies
after taking a stab
at bedraggled sea chanteys


awaiting the release
legally and logistically
as harrowing
as filling in the blanks
as distractions
in the middle of the pack
of self-analyses


rather bitterly mixed up ineptly
repeatedly breaching the brink
while riding bicycles and grinding teeth
illicitly limiting the tedium
by not revealing grisly incredulity


passing too closely
neither joining in nor quitting
after fracturing shoulders
and collarbones and coping by doping
cloned human hormones
in sensational overtones containing
the most overblown footnotes


like less glamorous roles
as the Dow closes
unbeholdingly for shareholders
in nagging yard sales
for wayward candidates


after the train has left the station
with dividend payments
having helped shape
ricochetting glass makers


irreverent for decades
like bedroom behaviors
appropriated on bedside tables
as aspirations of fung shui...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Bubble Worries

" Bubble Worries "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Bubble worries
ballooning
bottom lines
set aside
unauthorized
complaints filed


promising tips
bill cramming
overly attached
juice for tablets


kickstands
in the back
of enormous
stature


gruesome
photographs
graphic details
few fans
of grand masters


tax-bite tailored
middle class
public attractions
like pancreatic cancer


slashed demands
mobile ads given scale
zones from fracturing
country acts taken aback


bypassed absent
sent packing
asymptomatic
implant mishandlings


prematurely failing
metal and plastic
selling gas
turning into a dad


deceptive blasts
as crude salvos
ravaged and abandoned
tearing rabidly


with ferocity
like lovers that dare
to cover scandals
of savoir-faire


while happily tail kicking
with twin-fisted efficiency
under conditions of anonymity
usually in six-figured "Playbills"


slightly uptight yet radiantly
seizing on some flimsy
overbearing Philistine
appeasingly suspicious
of ennobled wishes


in sonorous choruses
while blocking chords
tinged with recall
when all is lost
match point...

Indifferent or Indiscriminate

" Indifferent or Indiscriminate "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Indifferent or indiscriminate
dressed to kill war weary
stranded dolphins on Cape Cod
bottle nosed smoldering
gulping being coaxed
out in droves of crossbows


etched all over as eye openers
on loan like loopholes in gazebos
rarely in sync hanging from the ceiling
every year since gone missing
as robotic figures in armor


peacocking in the fashion flock
glitzy parties fanciful progenies
surges in artistry delving deeper
filigreed chroniclings out of courtesy


zeroing in at the peak of red pleats
on the street feeling the squeeze
fleeing uncertain journeys
in dingy port cities poised for freedom


foundering at sea with impunity
comforting weeping refugees
dodging police with urban amnesty
while lacking amenities
more beholding to bulldozing
on the dole on rudimentary roads
in violations of codes since grown...

Monday, April 29, 2013

Jarring and Provocative

" Jarring and Provocative "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Googled art reviews
half hidden half human
perimeters of the herd
geometric at first
staking claims to turf
with eyes burning
in massacres
of vice versa


dumb pumped and ugly
in bulk as unsecured luxuries
in mosh pits of hungrily overstuffed
bungalows blown up
impinging on one another


as eyes struggle
with scrappy construction
of pop cultures for disrupted lovers
like corruptive colors slung together
by spontaneous combustion


emblazoned hands raised
as legacies to leather and lace
lurking backstage in the basement
like dumb stuff just made up
crude jarring and provocative
while yelping and walloping wantonly...

So Pronounced

" So Pronounced "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


So pronounced
as unsuccessful battles
in a clearinghouse
of beige boxes in a closet
for stolen property


like remarkable memoirs
of the impossible
as pursuits of bruised art
in catastrophic
burned-out hospitals
for the prized bronzes
of the impoverished


involuntarily expecting to crest
while lifting wolf protections
when nickel fetches public comments
well over forgotten authentic suspects
running from debts of the influential


taught to play melodies
to keep it that way
by appearing on radio
as instrument makers
carried off stage
vocal tracks later


back to cocaine
after changing labels
like elder statesmen
changing cassette tapes
nearly every day
in narrow inaccessible places...

Doesn't Matter

" Doesn't Matter "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Doesn't matter
sitting on a backless
muscle mass
making tomorrow happen


in non-sleeping patterns
while stretching the back
in not-too-taxing
activities of critical factors


as predictive powers
enabling Samaritans
with second opinions
to simply stop eating


within nurseries of pink
along with amenities
of being unnecessarily treated
by reconstruction techniques


education and screening
double mastectomies
skipping sunscreen
for branding disease


making up studies
over the summer
ending up mulling
over puzzling subjects
finely sculpted
as eyebrows went up...

Unfinished Business

" Unfinished Business "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


A reopening
of unfinished business
saved as similar
words overheard
like a search
for the particularly
baffled first person


twisted blacklisted in film
by committees of fiction
progressively different
up until dinner in a bit
of voyeuristic long distance


like the changing lyrics
inscripted in pinky rings
of self-consciously
whirling trajectories
sitting entirely still


jealously split
collaborative ever since
resonantly commissioned
by illogical rituals
shed like snakeskin


spending a long time
frightened at midnight
riffing off ideas
as subpoenas


literally chased
character based
name to name
like real-life neighbors


completely wasted
passed on to babies
soloed away
while hoping to emulate
glamour on stage...

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Changing the Dynamic

" Changing the Dynamic "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Changing the dynamic
sputtering in shambles
instead of flailing


struggling in no huddles
turned into fluxes
kept running by build ups


like unconstructed rushes
without the backup
of life-threatening maladies


reactive in practice like sticky bans
of the coaching staff for champions
widening the gap by building ramps


dirt sand and trash
as forces of collapse
ruled unaccountable


in sold-out crowds
of prowess strewn with towels
during first-round ousters


akin to bringing an outsized
house down in a rout
like a strike out with a slider


resuscitated by keen-eyed
costume design resized
to fit a child outright


in bona fide premieres live
as nightmarish archetyped icons
inherently improvised big time...

Only in Remnants

" Only in Remnants "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Only in remnants
of must-see events
going well as hope
for a mother lode
of smartphones
still in tuxedos


playing major roles
hung in the Smithsonian
like insect embryos
undergoing old skin molts
lettered sub-coastally


named for the vein
like resting stages
of inane behaviors
ranging from a few days
in distasteful simulations
not your typical subway
as summer generations



square-tipped marking pens
taking to the ground in steps
like unusual residents
especially in the west
while playing roles of temperatures


cold blooded
no internal mechanisms
like lateral baskers
with darkening scales
taking full advantage


laying eggs
only around midday
antennae straightened
in dense vegetation
seeking mates
under cliff overhangs


as salt intake
actively engaged
until after eight
during daylight savings
with increased appreciation


preventing inhumane
abnormal haunts
over the the long haul
with pairs of forceps


handling postage stamps
in transparent plasticine sleeves
being released during butterfly season
temperatures above freezing
found in the clear...

The Language of Pattern

" The Language of Pattern "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


The language of pattern
not affording to dawdle
unmuzzling genes
using their proteins
in healthy colonies
spreading quickly


killing its victims
by biting off bits
of the parasitic
with capacities
for grammar
from the Latin


"fractus" flabbergasted
on campus by the mathematics
of facts in heretical abstractions
like finite challenges
as enigmatic alphabets


fresh or processed
particularly trendy
yet totally unexpected
versus the heavy
warmer weather


generally selling
as accessories
of increasing percents
questioning contents
without question


like spring dresses
and royalty checks
for the newest collection
while tussling with spectrums
of surviving under-represented
members hammered together


sets of Stetsons
many mezzos of envy
with wild abandon
in handfuls of sass
like alternatives to sand
as former faves tramping
while our mileage varies...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

A True Rarity

" A True Rarity "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


A true rarity
snapping off tails
paler markings on scales


moveable eyelids
legless lizards
mistaken for snakes


head body length
prominent with age
when regenerated


as racers and whip snakes
except during hibernation
in some parts of the range


foraging throughout the day
decidedly isolated
in clumps of vegetation


with heads raised
in rugged terrain
savagely escaping


yanking away
at widely separated
lacerations


after scooting
into unknown places
between adjacent labials


hissing and vibrating
getting ready to strike
boldly outlined


difficult to define
suffused with light
like opposite types


as remnants of juveniles
anally divided by anterior eyes
at the mouth line of a viperous bite...

The First Lure

" The First Lure "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


The first lure
of the persistently perky
not so sure


as strictures
of anonymity
still at issue


like sadistic headmistresses
dwarfed by unscripted millions
in silence for just minutes


sustaining interest
while resembling mannequins
front and back with a faint slap


neither salacious nor pornographic
sensual or ecstatic
breaking through the placid


mild-mannered before hands
as insomniacs gone mad
in song tracks backed by bands


firm and passionate
unlikely to react
as alternatives to a sandman


stringy-haired protagonists
take their chances at random
amounting to dares


like the outlandish
chomping on club sandwiches
while the air crackles...

The Dizzying Plunge

" The Dizzying Plunge "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


The dizzying plunge
stuck in a rut
of federal cuts


not fearsome enough
from unusually sluggish
too lates for some


spinning as a compass
of simultaneous stock jumps
vanquishing the moneyed


stalling after months
of sign ups
and screw ups


as the world's momentum
in the months ahead
unbecomingly lost in recession


with the exception of a sequester
more or less at the onset
of rushed-through measures
standing together in bottlenecks...

Lacking Star Power "

" Lacking Star Power "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Referring obliquely
to the needy
drawn from people
in chains of custody


as ramifications of collapsing
cracks for activists
like contractors making magnets
that actually attract


in decisions to allow
the restructuring of sounds
by clamoring for systematic
adaptations to barge traffic


in paperbacks if they happen
as gatherings of established
offensive tackles
lacking star power


in riotous ramblings
through brambles
of chairmen under fair use
on a flagstone tarmac...

Friday, April 26, 2013

Seeking Better Intelligence

" Seeking Better Intelligence "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Seeking better intelligence
after thwarted attempts
quickly corrected

as sarin at small scales
judging 'Gatsby' in tactics
of exemplary spats

in adaptation like acrobats'
circus packages with original jackets
of radical tactics for barge traffic

offensive tackles
both brash and flashy
in the rubble of collapse

requiring more capital
during bailouts
as last-chance razzle dazzle

less savvy stagecraft
like sing and dance
as menageries of tragedy

more than crass in first class
on their behalf
like the long-lasting unprepared

slingshots as wallets
squeaking popping
simulating tree frogs

temporary ponds
bombarded by rocks
in marshes of hydrocarbons

like novelties just getting started
exotically slapping a flattened hand
while grasping casualties

fastened to wooden handles
snapping turtle tails with salamanders
while carrying a snake in a bag...

Intergradation

" Intergradation "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Ceremonial openings
set in motion
by pomp and parade
feeling constrained

as safety nets praised
in name-calling debates
with quests for inter-racial
inauguration days

never mentioning
the word, "gay"
equated days later
stopping climate change

robust articulation
devastated by rage
in ditches and cattle tanks
keel down back and carapace

intergradation taking place
in shallow lakes
of isolated populations
basking and wary

on panhandles
as fully adult males
with very long nails
wandering about the land

heavily scaled black hatchlings
" calipee " " calipash "
succulent gelatinous
imagined aphrodisiac

mainly of grass and pads
hinged across plastrons
as shallow pallets
burrowing mammals

still in demand
yellowish and tan
almost anywhere
beady scales

running on land
sliding dashing
in mud or sand
for breaths of air...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Applied to Movement

" Applied to Movement "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Applied to movement
as changing solutions
like chopped tomatoes in juice
and adding anchovies if using
nutritional tablespoons

smelling fragrantly
in advanced preparation
adding water to moisten
assuring anonymity

as living things
of subsurface habitability
in long tunnels
of vulnerable species

burrowing to construct
how we judge
newsy topics as the flu
from quirky to abstruse
in infusions of diluted
genetic pools...

Instantly or Semi-Instantly

" Instantly or Semi-Instantly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Instantly or semi-instantly
for no apparent reason
as touches of whimsy
allotted as monumentally
arching soffits costing a lot


as enduring charm
with the flair of artistry
loosely speaking
but never actually occurring


like leaping zebras
downed in a stiff drink
of idiosyncrasies
while on the brink
of a raid sequence


otherwise engaged
by watchful waiting
in a frontal gaze
of manifold implications


like taxidermic animals
getting back on track
as affluent benefactors
cross sectioned as characters
after lapsing from human contact


following the wind
in wicked summits
of small white rumps
plainer backed
scalloped scapulars
nesting on marshy ponds
in large colonies


as prickly pears
of green pads
in small scales
like native plants
on plains
and prairies
cactus candy


lanceolate heart-shaped
frequently escaping
broadly ovate
shapes of basal
rocky banks


handsomest seeded capsules
scarcity in some areas
sticky sap boat-shaped bracts
leafy branches
sizable patches long after


the worried well
undetectably
harmed by good health
after getting up
and stretching
during reduced incidences
of infection
while seeking further help
from ounces of prevention
as sedentary rinsed well...

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Murky Legacies

" Murky Legacies "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Murky legacies
deemed weakened
by digitally lean
minorities as cheerleaders
for multi-religious themes


with deal-making abilities
colliding with codpieces
concocted by pharmacies
after scrambling randomly
in financial disasters


unmasked by tailwinds
from elsewhere
disproportionately
stronger in spring and fall


like pelagic black-legged
kittiwakes heads and napes
smudged with gray still waiting
for emailed statements

not just as creation
of industry chains
as take-no-prisoners
examinations of 401(K)s
for decision makers

never having made
minimum wage
as a blazing stars
species name

in unwanted flavors
spiking rayless
over well-separated
ranges elongating
on occasionally
alternating ungainly days...

Tripping Seraphims

" Tripping Seraphims "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Squarely into the middle
with victims losing limbs
as Biblical equivalents
of tripping seraphims
stumbling at the finish


in arresting images
like pilgrims transfixed
by ballistically grisly
derelict terrorists


scourged
by unheard
words of utter
uncertainty
while being
bullied
and bawling
during a brawl


as star-crossed
soft landings
with crossed swords
backs to the audience


rejoindered by applause
in a bombed-out performance
unbecomingly dubbed,
" out of doors "


in unusually strong
influential songs
softly soaring
after fleeting across
trigger points


as disastrous zigzags
hailed as unassailable
bolts and nails
never flagging in prayer...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Aforementioned

" Aforementioned "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Aforementioned
blacktopped again
like whatevers
as best we can
in machinations
of the not always
accurate coming back
with a lack of disparities


combing hair
at the grande up there
bantering inadequately
wrestling with mortality
on a laptop in a rattan chair


as scratchy misunderstandings
of advocacy enacting
sorting outs for the sell outs
stamped out by black magic
in acts after the fact


like interlocking vamps
and bandleaders
becoming enchanted
by corporate branding
at Roseland
with the Goosefoot Family


radiantly symmetrical
bisexuals or unisexuals
introduced as members
turning reddish


extending stems
separate petals
exuding sap from cracks
in extensive mats
as parts detach
from poverty grasses
foreshortened radically
as actual terminal panicles...

Penalties Reflected

" Penalties Reflected "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Penalties reflected
in an Etch a Sketch's
post-recessional potential
in rows of pedestals
and along parapets
in moments of sinewy stillness


while living in the unnatural conditions
of half-timbered buildings
filled with fallibilities
spoofed by bobbing balloons
during trips to the zoo
in collaborative groups
trying to feed food
to cud chewers still on view
with blades bit through


with shaky reigns far and away
hastened toward big gains
like long-time patriots
oh how times have changed
as severely underestimated
improved data in the latest
communiques while weighing
complaints of cattle waste
and rattle snakes in digital ages


as compensation
when flights are delayed
by sequestered legislation
becoming too broad
and seriously flawed
in consortiums of last calls
while falling short as false
androidal reports of slaughtered
horses transported from across
the border in an uproar


like leafless stalks escaping
from cultivation in tooth shapes
with fine veins and foul-
smelling flowers that attract carrion
narrowly facing downward
no matter how fallow the ground


reddish brown nearly throughout
whorled around as menstral disorders
except for far north like essential oils
of the so called strongly coarse
yet ornamentally elongated sprawl...

Monday, April 22, 2013

Pivotal and Political

" Pivotal and Political "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Pivotal and political
unfortunate slips
as testy tempers
of unsettling senses
like incandescence
with the tastiness
of multidisciplinary
fennel and fringed gentian


erect smooth stems
irregular petals
elliptical leaflets
tapering ends
visceral grievances
avenging deaths
as dissents
from the bench
and misconduct
by the defense
within the realm
of jurisprudence


constrained
in a regulatory maze
once the veneer
of civilization
stacked on increasingly
mangled small tables
scraped away
as street savvy
proliferations of beige


staged on runaway runways
looming large with black leggings
while marching in parades
and staking claims to ticker tape
in full-service operations as staples
of made-up moneyed games
of modern-day fragrances
like cult favorites that won't fade away


after cantering throughout crusades
as tankers sank on vintage radio
station configurations undulating
in choppy waves dinged and replaced
like breastplates waged as magnates
of speculation kept circulating
while hanging with revelations
widely spaced profanely
as soulful appreciation
for the armless clay
of constant change...

Sunday, April 21, 2013

From One Wing to Another

" From One Wing to Another "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

From one wing
to the other
after pulling the plug
and barking
at one another

as subadults' mea culpas
over open country
in mediocre descending notes
lower and lower in tone

evoking plovers
with postocular spots
and cobweb nods
minutely barbed
yet noxiously prominent

as glandular hairs
in woodlands
of fused anthers
lanceolately clasping
while thriving on bare
arctic strands

with the futility of capture
unwrapped in visceral fashion
like portentously theatrical
contextualized facts sent packing
totally out of character...

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Provoked

" Provoked "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Provoked
praised for boldly
onerous
gender-controlled
fashion shows


seemingly serious
in need of feverish immediacy
like runway pieces
for high-end boutiques


including baggy jammys
worn backwards
as shammies
on designer racks


stagnating labels
in half the cases
of hand-made
blue lasers
for over-the-top
presentations


individually portrayed
as single shades
of black jacks in spades
during bridge games


being played
while wearing
light-weight chambray
at card tables
on sunny days


painted and framed
like navy windbreakers
of tailor-made crazy eights
evenly spaced and uncomplicated
in new generations of plainness


interfacing the graceful
in all sorts of ways on estates
of former days in many ways
mundane like white-gloved fame
for slaves put up in the basement


as wind-swept games of trade
at the end-stage
of a non-profit organizations
taking their names
from human remains...

Slightly Arched

" Slightly Arched "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Slightly arched
fairly common
underparts
uniformly dark
rufous barred


slightly cocked
nasal quality
" kee-ah "
dominant conifer


less harsh
large flocks
southern parts
crested caracaras
spinal columns
of undetermined origins


initial winter
two-toned bill
lower pitched
post-breeding visitor


roof tops sand bars
coarsely scaled raspy
upright stances
generally rare
white trailing


raucous noisy cackling
" go-back go-back "
bubbling air sacks
aquatic " kak-kak-kak "
casual straggler


range and habitat
under tail broader bands
sooty pale offshore elsewhere
red tailed colorfully bare...

Airy Tickley

" Airy Tickley "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Airy tickley
leading ladies
made plain
as Sunday matinees

incarnate
like psychic breaks
of formulaic statements
for avian compilations

on stream banks
for scrub jays
well out of range
of nasally ravens

becoming grayish
at the base
in mysterious
strains of impatiens

summed up as malaise
responding gamely
to petticoat interpretations
as storage spaces for estates
after passing away...

Now Terhered

" Now Tethered "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom, & Mom-Mom Suzán


Now tethered
at an opening reception
of howevers as dance filaments
with self-identities at the center


reading text messages
of the glittery set
in reinvention
as corrective measures


stunning yet unimpressive
keeping to themselves
as single concepts
minus dementia


with vibrant rugby stripes
where the answer lies
while trying to fit just right
but never really minding why


winding up forthrightly
on the unbearable side
above the biceps of otherwise
like pricey designers
darting like dragonflies


streaked above riptides
in the wilds of madras bow ties
once spied like faint outlines
on the wild side
of noncompliance


gone awry as giant
black-eyed oxeyes
as lance-leaved
sneezeweed
with mouse ears...

Hilly Terrain

" Hilly Terrain "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Hilly terrain
neck shorter
tail longer
horned fore neck

wintering on salt
in North American waters
miles offshore
mainly in late fall

before taking off
forehead and lores
comparatively smaller auklets
expanding northward

long and drawn out
cinnamon overall
as many more
north of the forest

rapid staccato
communal saguaro
monotonously less common
sighted in Florida

with white spotting
and dog-like barks
largest and darkest
heavily barred

ear tufts prominent
spaced well apart
as suburban gardens
oak-conifer

psychological nuance
gathered as artworks
before departing
soldiering on

becoming demolished
architectural projects
blocks and blocks
rock solid salt marsh

frequently arching
wild garlic
long linear flat
seeded capsule

fibrous skin
showily loco
members of both
waste place and fragrance

yellow at the base
native to Asia
in grotesque shapes
broadly ovate

common names
singular lengths
like dried bouquets
tending to disintegrate

escaping cultivation
in succulent chambers
protruding stamens
long and fragrant

poisonous to grazing
nectar accumulations
in heart shapes
open at the base

ovate to lanceolate
genus names
cone shapes
germinate...

Raising Crises to New Heights

" Raising Crises to New Heights "

by Suzán Jiván,
Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán


Raising crises to new heights
like primary paradigms
of long goodbyes
traced to be widely hybridized
radical ideas


flipping, twisting
rotating and detaching
too gruesome to display
as confirmation
of a decentralized bank


overtaken by cascades
of incoming information
at a rapid pace
by quasi former heads of state
while on their breaks


going to great lengths
to overtake condemnation
of the days tangled takes
from a quaking home stake
of miscalculations


in a five-block radius
frozen in anticipation
of further deregulation
as calculated inundations
from friends and neighbors
analysts and agents
with arcane names


largely escaping
through engraved entryways
of cheerless transformation
by the highly educated's
vast lack of imagination


met by the chief complaints
of the ultra-safe startling arrays
in northern constellations
as anonymous yellow stars


half again as large as the odds
of cosmological demolishment
by astronomers tearing at the hearts
of the bygone allies of the arts


like collaged shrinking foreign policies
favoring roles and shapes
pre-packaged and pre-arranged
as somewhat ornate lightweight
angular waists of curvaceously
exaggerated enablements


debuted as paintings
defined by waves
at close range
of irreplaceable
tissue paper


seen as the basis of conté crayons
giving way to accurately conveyed
new angles like long and languid
punctuation in promising placements
quarantined by gray plights of state


like imperfect accommodations
of slightly archaic subjects rotating
in collaboration with botanical
exactitude pared down in recapped
enchanted crosshatchings


raising savvy capital
as sensuality in tiny dabs
painted to last in comparison
with captured anatomy
bent backwards to snatch
endangered bottomlands
from mixed woodlands


like pitcher plants
and yellow flag
bearing bladders
with small bracts
in time capsules
as scraps sent packing
in fragments


believed to have mattered
in comparison
with appearances cogently handled
after failing to find traction


pragmatically unannounced
incalculably diplomatic
changes of tactical magnitude
distractingly invalid
at the maximum right flank


tenaciously crashing
up against brashly
outlasted shortened chapters
as tactical analyses
willfully and unpredictably
indistinguishable...

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Even the Infallible

" Even the Infallible "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Even the infallible
in impalpable channels
as embarrassingly mastered
as a sad alligator's rippled tail

like primal dance
through dueling
hints of ritual
with the gestural fitness
of quicksilver
appearing in angst-ridden
films of virility

bloated then thinned
barely nimble
with delicate flickers
of woodwinds
scampering figures
skittish bells and whistles
tucked in by gusts of wind
likened to what ifs ably but timidly...

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Never Having the Nerve

" Never Having the Nerve "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Never having the nerve
of revellers none the less
unimpressively
strumming cellos
with the good intentions
of veritable terror

strung together
across the neck
without question
like a tightroping guest
until the song ends

leading to dread
in a flurry of confetti
nodding discontentedly
as beads of smelly sweat
pelt every directive

getting depressed
becoming yellowed
at neither end
subsequently
clamped together

clasping hands
to gasping mouthes
predictive of an ouster
being read aloud
and pushed out
like crunching sounds
into the loudly unallowed

in unflappable atmospheric
ballads of organic gaggles
of honky-tonk gals
pecking at twanging tangles
of vituperative brambles of blue...

Friday, March 29, 2013

Copycatted Tiny Actions

" Copycatted Tiny Actions "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Bees, sinkholes
like copycatted
tiny actions
of sincere flattery

undoubtedly proactive
like reactions
to greenhouse gases
and rising demands
of half way there

as anguished simulations
clawing their way
to the majorly strange
mimicries of nature

like inspired destinations
of DNA aided greatly
by evolutionary chains
all ablaze with ribonucleic
algebraic computations

enabling closely related
independently generated
ornamentation
in long-been-operational
Homo Sapiens

like interspecies mating
spreading populations
of exquisitely related
juggled gray
matters of the brain
as vanishings
of practicums
in scavenged
simple math...

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Come to This

" Come to This "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Come to this
famously free
of principled parties
like graft and gluttony


ending boozily
with gift-wrapped bribery
and complimentary toiletries
while saving face
by embracing throw aways
of funneled public monies


left vulnerably prone to toppling
in narrowing eligibilities
within the grip of slippery six figures
like crimping innocent children
solicited by predictive disinterest


butting in browbeaten
standing out without
questions of how
in nightmarish sharings
of rambling mourning shams
as clumps of elephant dung
plus pots of money-crunched money...

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Malleability by the Fifth

" Malleability by the Fifth "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Malleability by the fifth
as Sumerian mined silver
adorning wrists with forbidden
pinkish mixtures in metric millions
of chrome-plated bricks
sailing through sinisterly
superstitious stained windows

as roll outs
of bronzer palettes
and garish eye shadows
with the likes
of bright white outs
of everyday life

omnipresent
as high-end
maxi dresses
inexplicably
print happy
on bland hair-
drying chairs
with pocket squares

loosened after
a nail-biting heiress
small and pale
under banners
of bikini wax
looking elsewhere

unexpected
like invited friends
playing princess
single at present
speaking up
after running
over budget

bit by bit in high bids
for itchy trigger fingers
from wedding to will
in crashes that kill

taking hits plus interest
as algorithmic gambles
for financial last chances
facing wrath after posting bail
while traveling first class

devilishly complex
interdependent
as whimsical pencils
with neuromuscular
elements of yellowed
credentials for experts
of efficacy reflexively
letting up as recklessly
deadly soft lead

in detents of sensitivity
on the brink of relinquishing
breathing while swallowing
crispy crunchy bubbles
and beams mealy or mushy
audibly high-speed longevity
as wild figs with viscosity
between the teeth...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Closer to Its Quarry

" Closer to Its Quarry "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Closer to its quarry
mainly carrying cachets
of lost patience

ostensibly focusing
on low profiles
for the first time

while breathing life
as limits derived
by straining rightly

being hired
like a tight knee-high
across time

like homemade
moonshine
still figuring out
the hows and whys

persuaded to rely
on dried corncob pipes
over the long while
as drought survivors

unfazed by fake breakups
as mistaken moderators
coming apart unbothered
by bowl-shaped parts

made up of cacophonies
of knots like unfathered
zombies struck hard
as heartless novices...

Monday, March 25, 2013

Elaborate Stunts Forthcoming

" Elaborate Stunts Forthcoming "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Elaborate stunts forthcoming
as alter egos of off-screen
boards of trustees
immersed in teaching

for the time being
at least temporarily
like cogent themes
for only the lonely
row by row
as moviegoers

distinctly sticky
getting pretty
gummed up
by fund-raised
money

realized grungily
as encounters
facing the facts
back to back
as actual
advancements
in green-dyed hair
like random banter
finding its bearings

often hilariously
after slipping from grips
of subconsciousness
darting straight-bodied
into one another's arms

cartwheeling badly
into classical romance
dancing in pairs
soon began

among the last
of casual chitchats
as unadorned acting
in simmerings
of exasperance
not really mattering...

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Popular Genre Blurrings

" Popular Genre Blurrings "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Popular genre blurrings
on rosters of polyglot
ensembles of artists
largely and calmly
at the crotch of the hardly-
begun remarkably orthodox

returning compliments
by singing, bobbing
and weaving poly-
theistically while looking
teary during severe
freelance careers

as seasons of perversity
suggesting relief
in mood-darkening lotteries
of the odd likely to become
more bizarre as flattering bas
reliefs of discomfitings

in bewilderings
of multiple meanings
lying tantalizingly
with kaleidoscopically
demonic harmonies
as staged geomitries
throbbing draconically...

Having Sworn Off

" Having Sworn Off "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Having sworn off
imposing performances
with booming
lifelong preclusions

of dub-step decadence
with vengeance
as extensive introspection
like thefts of identities

redirected by stealing the credits
of false impressions
exclusively this weekend
as one of many

like libidinous questions
in retrospectives
of atmospherics
with defective sketches
against stand-up sets
antidepressed...

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Being Leaked

" Being Leaked "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Even so
down the road
doubled over
as engrossed
shareholders
with economic
woes

like weakened colonies
of killer bees
feeding off debris
where more research
is needed

being leaked
as the most recent theme
in a glossy magazine
for former marketings

as strengths
and weaknesses
of cybersecurity
reignited online
minus the how or why
like declassified
primetime headlines...

Friday, March 22, 2013

Certainly Doesn't Tell

" Certainly Doesn't Tell "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Certainly doesn't tell
across trails and over steps
of the temple as residents
getting attention joined together
in storytelling of the fairly better
leaves of plenty as toxic breaths

scorched to death around the bend
as a wall presence of momentous
retellings defending themselves
with hundreds of letters in succession

having weathered the threat
of complex trends irregardless
of the potentials for specialty medicines for one percent
of cost pressures in a quarter century
of extinct species still soaring
from under a frozen utter...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Already Rattled

" Already Rattled "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Already rattled
taking chances
with handsomer
harsher & sadder
" For Sales "

with penchants
for spare
thumbnails
as shaggy
stand-ins
of irrational
cyberbattle

sinking back
to pornographic
cannon balls
on the floor
of monochromatic
khaki tactility

bearing witness
to history's
reimagined
slinky zigzags
of scandal
as scrapbooks
on canvas

as scanned
overcrowdings
hatching and flailing
with well-known facts
of expansive
fragmented shares...

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

On the Dust Jacket

" On the Dust Jacket "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


On the dust jacket
electromagnetic meddling
as sexy and reflective portents
from the northern steppes
of filial developments
with power centers


having weathered
complex specialties
of higher spending
for natural selections
using frozen cells


gone extinct
in a short-term sleep
overrun by zombies
like bodyguards
for lovelorn goddesses
with their clothes on


with the fire and ice
of unrecognizable
mainlining societies
firing split-second spikes
in neuroscience
conjuring up surmised slides


in the midst of what has been
trending as specialists
flopping badly in bailouts
hurled back and forth
in financial storms
of religious disorders
for the desperately poor


with cardinal warnings
to enforce the law
challenged in court
by complaints of extraordinary
rising costs for the unaffordable
from years before
with fiscal notes of caution


diggin' the dancin' queen
steppin' to a bouncin' beat
of the fitness industry
in a demographic shift
for tens of millions


fillin' in on field trips
for children
with noncredit certificates
demandin' more skills
of grim difficulties
while payin' tuition
with a hug and a kiss
after altering history...

Monday, March 18, 2013

Lost in the Aisles

" Lost in the Aisles "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Lost in the aisles
of tailored advice
trained to push the lines
with every client
for a starting price

snoozing outside
like art-world scions
by factors of five
in high-profile
machine gun sights

scrutinizing unreliable
cease fires during overnights
on trial for prime-time genocide
of street styles in hi-def live

while lapel grabbing quite nicely
in the honeyed light
of a secret indictment...

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Vicious and Widely Scattered

" Vicious and Widely Scattered "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Vicious and widely
scattered lethal reaches
of weakening hierarchies
as subcommittees
of low probabilities
win the papacy


after being leaked
by authorities
by pulling off
long and costly
victories
while scrutinizing
the Holy See
still remaining
to be seen
as centuries
of unseemly
wealth building...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Fracking Through

" Fracking Through "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Plummeting misjudgments
badly run fiscally stunned
deeply rooted structures

gone public
with the tight budgets
of all at once

fracking through
destitute fossil fuel
as nuclear fusion's
muted tumors

precluding
the cloud computing
of altered egos

slowly sweeping
boards of trustees
of the distinctly sticky

qualities of indignities
squiggling inimitably
and all accordingly

in the face of dwindling
stability as a tsunami
hits with a double click...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Alive But Unconscious

" Alive But Unconscious "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Alive but unconscious
searching for the origins
of anatomically modern
self-consciousness


as a complex process
in a single shot
of chronically despondent
dearths of possibility


in a garden of gunshots
as toxic espionage
for extant hunter-gatherers
on biomedical paths


like malpracticed
gender gaps
with the absence
of motor accidents


while in the lab
being observed through glass
with software to track
all that's been haphazardly added...

Monday, March 11, 2013

Among the Out-of-the-Way

" Among the Out-of-the-Way "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán


Among the out-of-the-way
obliquely related
golden ages
in windswept
ancient havens
of rare occasions
waxing and waning


split in many ways
stealing away in peeling
phases of daylight
on an agrarian lifeline
of the unlikely
one seed at a time


typified by downright
tired diarists knighted
by titles while cycling
and socializing
with bleary-eyed
weekend misers
like ibex kids
bleating on a cliff
with voice-over skills...

Sunday, March 10, 2013

On the Verge

" On the Verge "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

On the verge
of a still world
as milk thistles
combat
liver illness

indicative
of being
indifferent
to differences
by definition
on a treadmill
bit by bit
put at risk

as an unsuspecting
sieve of symptoms
exposed to the skin
at high repetition
for caregivers

in mapped areas
of cheatgrass
beating the laggards
by turning back
to Skull Valley
after behaving badly
well in advance...