Saturday, June 29, 2013

Something of an Anomaly

" Something of an Anomaly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Something of an anomaly
not always comfortably sloppy
as promised while provoking shock
behind bars of consolation
knees knocking


prisoners of good
looks and vanity
with glorified status
hopping into squats
of caterpillar dark


perching patrolling
on crowberry and roses
with the post-basal blotches
of vagrant colonists


foregone checkerspot
on crosswort composites
of women artists
in striped socks
hands on knobs


numerous clues
of erotic humor
in ludely alluring
studio solitude


tanning continues
unsuitably in the nude
through the window
with underpinnings
turned into hits


pop prettiness
like mafia myths
of clannishness
in LaLa Land


impassively babbly
ever so slightly wiggly
while flailing
with the seed
of a dance
as tough as nails


tricked up a bit
by a ridiculously
grumbly didgeridoo
captivatingly denatured
and over arranged
to one side of the face
by looking the other way


licking themselves
with written messages
in the guise of experiments
pulling eerily lovely hairs
from floppy locks
of upward mobility


turned upside down
by whereabouts
on feverishly
teetering heels
while slinking
with unctuous
punctures and blood
never deviant enough...

Friday, June 28, 2013

Slap Dance for Doodads

" Slap Dance for Doodads "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Committed to nothingness
than a senseless nevertheless
proudly protested as poetic expression


gathering and passing
despondent heirs
between child and vamp
as cyclical pattens
erotic and irrational


rapturous rifts of a seer's
revelrous handprints
admiringly uninhibited
evocative juxtapositions


checker-spotted
satyrs and skippers
with pine-white
undersides


veins lined black stripes
upper wing forewing evergreen
rapidly beating overall buffy
bubbly low-pitched drummings


sagebrush country
chicken-like clucks
when flushed
by final breakups


long throated
great winged
swooning muse
stimulus endings
off message


glancing at an end
gained step by step
citing concessions
rich with asymmetry
suspending privileges
for riderships in twin killings


wielding derivatives
in courtship-swapped baubles
materially fraught finishing fourth
without a cause in oils
before an audience
mismatched as slap dance
while playing with matches
on doorsteps for doodads...

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Devoid of Death Rays

" Devoid of Death Rays "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Devoid of death rays
on secret banks
with roiling accusations
of deft speculation


scrutinized like recalibrations
of race relations for future cases
like dramatic escapes
after being made midday
by a host-facilitating nation
of self-effacing enablers


switching places with maids
forging relationships
unconvincingly piddly
like precise pitch
blanched of harmony


repatriated
to the United States
in the wake
of a hurricane
strafing
dire financial straits


wiping out
award-winning buildings
unbeholden to worries
while holding steadily
to ominous imagery


slapping stroking
sighing kneeling
stretching in series
of staccati
spread eagling



knowingly striking
unnervingly silent
in real time
gone awry


lock step in decline
pushed over the side
by online creep
of piece-mealed
peacekeepers



getting more and better sleep
under darkening skies
beneath deepening seas
being harnessed for research
fully gleaned of zzz's


more bureaucratically
entrenched
deadpan renderings
signaling suspension
of eco-friendly
room vents



ravenous for meat and sweets
life on the streets everything cheap
made with a brief lucidity
for stringed trios in G


still-shocking pieces
between the seeing
and feeling of tired feet
of disequilibrium


marketing gimmicks on a whim
for four inhabitants
with inaccurate inactions
roughly sketched
meant to blend indelibly
with overwhelmingly
entrenched farewells


ambiguous tensions
ubiquitously and obviously
stained rather than painted
elsewhere created
in wildly innovative
immersive installations


latticed and expanded
preoccupied chairs
on topographical maps
of stone and glass
like glaring housewares
reaching for apogees
metaphorical antiquities


quill pens in ink
as that of a priestess
in domestic spheres
within divisive interiors


stepping into the halogen glare
of the first draft of a frayed vapor trail
sweeping away no chance
of gerrymandering after the fact


no chance along the path
of suicide attacks maximizing
lasting damages of insurmountable
higher grounds of meaty and mighty
whiskeys turning sweet...

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Unbowed But Cautious

" Unbowed But Cautious "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Unbowed but cautious
faltering reforms
of flawed androids
uncurtailing
greenhouse gases



faulty software
loaded to maim
by reigniting debates
of involuntary exchanges



triggering peripheries
setting off swappings
of circumvented credit
of voluntary debt



assumed expirations
picking up paces
of maladjusted rates
seeking gains
in social gaming


change-based interplays
unsustainably
damaging reputations
with illicit ad campaigns


pressures growing greatly
denigrating commodity traders
of fiscal conservation
withdrawing racily
from higher education


back in the news
never having left
urgent messages
warned
of consequences
for the unforgotten



directly linked
as secret peeks
to lower links
of overhauled
major laws
long before
prophylactic
mores



porous vocal
squalls of fraud
reigning in
neighboring states
as gangs of eight
lawmakers
with flight delays
for immigration



turning into stampedes
of greater transparency
over shared for centuries
as implied complicities



secretly solely lonesome
like dark deeds
of urged conservancy
replete with inklings
of not exactlies



masking shams
holding barely
onto holy grails
while scrambling
for small-scale
contraptions
turned by handles
of water cannons
and tear gas canisters...

Sunday, June 23, 2013

A Hopping Colossus

" A Hopping Colossus "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzân

High anxiety over a prized
civic-minded wind up
while chugging upticks
from a funneled stimulus
without a hint of tinkerers
excreting stinging tears
heavy on purples and pinks


policed by a hopping colossus
puffing on a cigar through jagged teeth
unflappably chipper disappointingly
familiar gagging and weeping


lazily formulated
like hair-netted
lunch ladies
bellying up to folding tables
nibbling on pastries
plied with bacon
at midday meat tastings
in sticky situations
as wet-tee ladies



shooed away
from the shebang
fashionably as of late
like on-call lactation
under breast plates
during an arms race



with a hometown following
of pretty near faultless art
incredibly plucky like pick up sticks
depicted with hand-held leaded
pencils pigmented by yellows
on large-gestured revelations
flanked by earthwork-cum-naked...

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Underlying the Rise

" Underlying the Rise "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Underlying the rise
of high-profile hideouts
while privately relying
on the White House



braved by the likes
of undermined defiance
as gossip sites
centering on killers for hire



shot blocked with bravado
at a bus stop with a following
for site-specific projects
of cavernous parks



oxymoronic ocular art
as mobster genres
for can-you-top-this zombies
heatedly arguing



blunt-witted comedies
of abhorrent ideas
cleverly conceived
even exciting



sin-riddled sex
rehearsed in sequences
of hand gestures
dips and bends
arms outstretched



stump speeches
buntings cross country
with the diameters
of Wiki-Leaked Frisbees



funky beats
sawing heaving
in shaggy-dog stories
from anthropological
Gospels and Psalms
without qualms



glowering darkly
unnaturally attached
to unfathomable
running gags



like one kind or another
snivelingly funny
as worlds overrun
by loved ones



diverted
mildly disturbed
as self-assured
unseen leaders
of uncertainty



venturing
beyond redemption
cruelly and senselessly
dialing up disconnections



ignorant of potential
forced to jettison
test, test, test
one dimensionally



fathomless scads of flattery
overreaching incompatibility
like blind obedience
in knee-jerk perpetuity



head-clutchingly
pitying the panicky
in well-inked poetry
like a monk in the opening
walking home alone
foretold as voice-overs in retro...

Friday, June 21, 2013

Optimistic Fed Outlines End

" Optimistic Fed Outlines End "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Optimistic fed outlines end
by the middle of next
with emphasis on forever
as a reverse trend


content with consensuses
for the prevalence
of vintage bits as critics
bristle with data-driven
nesting decisions


inconsiderable persistence
of the hypocritical
coming up with a difficult
equivalent sparked in part
by cuts in bonding


moving on
to intellectual property
as patented pitchmen
oust their founders
planning outings


winning best picture
with alligator grilles
locked in grim
municipal dimmer
switches mimicking
frivolous stimulus


unfinished as a 3-D print
inadequately inked
as rubber chickens
tilt at windmills
like ceramic chicks
fresh out of the kiln


pecking toe-to-toe in fetishes stilettos
unfettered by skin protection
with overwhelming berry smells
in willful suspensions


seemingly spread
as self-reflective
dewy residues
making good
impressions
with special effects



elaborate at the neck
with slips of the tongue
from underground sculptures
rife with light-emitting diodes
not unlike sunlight on a hell of a ride
in work-wear styles daubed with white


during beauty routines
on a humid eve
that doesn't hurt either
penetrating the bloodstream


unlucky to be ugly cheekbones
brow bones down the noses
going under weight controls
coveted in yellows by way of SoHo



curved-heel-peep-toes
cleverly connoted
off the shoulder
shooed away
WHIZZ BANG!!!!

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Unmanipulated Naïveté

" Unmanipulated Naïveté "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Plan to be broadening
high-capacity clips
for the mentally ill
receiving gun magazines
from hand-gun licensees
as stubborn realities
in copper jackets


abraded by mishandled
shots in dark
scarred like pockmarked
bookmarks in gun catalogs


blown up and printed on paper
as mawkish yet opaque
code violations
of unmanipulated naïveté


considerably shady
eluding representation
of sacred spaces
for opalescent angels
on stained panes


radically altered
dementedly florid
sweater letters
as slangy hellos
for halos


laying one-pound eggs
bent on a bender
for formal defenses
of household helpers


rituals for many
off the pedestal
fielding questions
metastasized as resin


cast in cement
at the midsection
with the ironic intent
of a somewhat better
heart rending


like ennius
for roused ringleaders
with additional degrees of focusings
and deepening depths of field
for increasingly calligraphic
scarce eelgrasses



tilting inwardly
like reverse imagery
on delicate grids
of enervating spectacles
in flowery beds



within walking distance
of downhill car trips
as rafters and canoeists
of the near future
like superheroes
longing for solitude



as sweet blisses
for innocent
children beginning
to feel the pinches
from within


finally maybe
this is our brain
opened on Sundays
in imaginative stagings
boldly portrayed
as birthplaces
for the newly renovated



at the end of a plague
of menacing speed demons
oohing and aahing
while undulating on dots


ricocheting into space
with lurid language
and hypnotic monotony
dragged through the streets
singing eerily


embarking alive
as great improvisations
of driving through gates
in blue lanes shifting away
from alienating handicapped plates



backing out of the frame
aging backwards
in a sound stage kazoo playing
with the unnatural amplification
of model airplanes
with the calvary on the way



locked in a stifling embrace
and a slap in the face
by double basses
downing double martinis
coming out swinging
with nothing up our sleeves...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Bound Tightly

" Bound Tightly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Bound tightly
largely
still in tact
ailing autocrats
victories set backs


exasperated as parables
with inaccurate background checks
along vast turbulent stretches
of unconfirmed defections


scrambling to get
to who they're up against
as the most testicular leverage
for charity benefits


like lie and try gun violence
being charged with crimes
by crossover types
in open pit gold mines


likened to mobile devises
coded "indecisive wunderkinds"
aspiring on and off line while on trial
as a means of proselytizing


decorative styles undermined
by folksy types invoking ancient times
of unchanging script and illumination
as reverential and elevating sensations


connoting rich falsettos
mentholated
like cool arpeggios
stargazing
comfy eh?
authenticated big bangs
oddly fascinating


cosmic crawling gnawing
wildebeests
frenzied indispensably
as dissections
over millenniums
of astonishingly conceptual
fifth-century codexes


elephants on the menu
guess the rest
as hierarchy trumps hunger
while ghoulish beetles
use eyelash glue
rife with ghost writers
rummaging through archives
of intellectual types


wielding billy clubs
in seedy night clubs
under lumbering
cardboard bed covers
inaccessible to the public
painstakingly de-constructed


hair and makeup
shot over a long hot summer
with head buts
as tactics of discomfort
while mothers hug sons
of indestructible no ones
by blowing bubbles
mostly as pathos
for the taking
cherry ice; cream smile...

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Night-Lighted High Beams

" Night-Lighted High Beams "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Speeding past
alter egos
as stand ins
uncannily
unmasked
with the grist
of side-stepping
self criticism


donning pink slips
with the munificence
of undergrads
while trailing
writerly tasks
like loyal fans
of philanthropy


story matching
with the catch
of the day
splashing past
stumbling backwards
as snaggers of salmon


in 6-Down locales
as leaders of the pack
with fiddle-faddle
for answers across the land
of stuccoed chapels


desperate for cash
lost in thought
in a black chalk
self-portrait
for holy orders
of awfulness
with abhorrent
sensual softness


in haunted corridors
filled with the deformed
organized jointly
like shock absorbers
bumpy and raw


impossible to ignore
unmatched on asphalt
via apps with too little gas
as flaws of annoyance


needlessly tinkering
while wallowing
in the mainstream
of up-front fees
as facsimiles
read digitally

as comical
hoedown partners
abscond with whiskey shots
as accent marks
for crimes of opportunity
devoted to discos
in downtown buildings
overly reverential
along the edges


continually drawn
by a phallic hood ornament
twice the normal size
being dynamited
by night-lighted high beams
for black sheep grazing green
in their bleating infancy


undaunted by previously
unseen gene-splicing technologies
secretly streaming live
like juvenile delinquency
gone wild with misaligned
hormonal vibes in overdrive...

The Smarts of Snarky Nonchalance

" The Smarts of Snarky Nonchalance "


by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Viral stars
biggest pops
striking nerves
after rehearsal


unmistakably throaty
toasted composers
under the batons
of bodies of major rock


flimsy facades like cardigans
of not-so-sweet moms
with the smarts for snarky
nonchalance with cream off the top


cults for the modest
clicking into sync
in 60's beats per minute
not bothered
by the postmodern
lactose intolerant


red-lettered doubleheaders
moody and elemental
swallowed by the fog
over cocktails cropping
up after up chucking
stinking clumps of grub


pulped into mulch
thin skinned full blooded
stunningly sliced lengthwise
while traversing borderlines


abducted by pirates
of pantomime with supertitles
tongue in cheek squinting bleakly
hooting publicly marveling dourly
wandering around as an undervalued
battle ax with a need for human contact in secret passages
of asteroid areas clicking and clacking
with captors in mixed body bags


depressing nearly every button
available getting tough fast
through every interactive patch
of bunny rabbits losing stamina
with absurd answers for the antic
morality of blackbirds waging attacks


desperately unhappy
steeped in misery
trying to flee life-smitten
strictures of private convictions
and traditions minus classicism


towering pillars of kitsch
being played with a willowy
self-consciousness
simmering getting testy


hermetically vanishing sexually
ambiguous like enigmatic gibberish
sounding sulky as hipster history
of frenemies swapping acting tips


percolating mostly
as sharp staccatos
in swap shops of old sparkles
plinking guitars from prompters
on monitors with the slickness
and confidence of the barest
of margins of optimism


no dogmas moving on
rooted to the spot that dissolves
into bottlenecks of post pop
neither aggressively nor groggily...

Monday, June 17, 2013

Fluff That Doesn't Blush

" Fluff That Doesn't Blush "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Rubble tells the story
like barnstormed warnings
huddled against the wind
of vulnerability
with tough questioning
going unmentioned
paying overdue attention


bearing the brunt
of someone else's fuss
becoming devoted to fluff
that doesn't blush
after lunging hard enough
into blunders of buttonholing adults
as yet to grow up like birth mothers


banging around the house
gasping out loud
in incredible amounts
of starting to think about
while dozing on the couch


smiling shyly in reply
bumping down the street
over many years
neither good nor bad
without permission granted


going mad paying cash
on bended knees
of welcoming committees
at fevered pitches


bearing inscriptions
lacking recognition
of lips of crimson
at a quick dinner
with endorphins
stenciled on linens


jettisoning femininity
made up beautifully
thumbing through
without intrusion
into neutral
peer reviews


hung together
by slender threads
of strongly stretchy
consequences


as aggressively
shared specimens
of incredulously
deadly venoms


in planning sessions
of sensory mesh
for outlandish
prosthetic paralysis
from invalid embarrassments


without the flapping
of absorbed sounds
as upside down
velvety down
of barn owls


open late to the public
in an intertwined vise
of puzzle-like mind-
boggled less nuanced
purchasers of art


unnamed heroes
managing to stagger
like mad leading the pack
dripping down canvases
of far greater gaps
in more expansive
raunchy fantasies


mishandled and transplanted
torquing and twisting
looming and leaning
teetering on bona fide heaps
while wielding squeegees


adaptive as hardly imagined chants
on epic scales of mundanity
partially blinkered theoretically
easy to read overseas
on ice-covered peaks
after mushing...

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Pre-Conclusions in a Zoot-Suit

" Pre-Conclusions in a Zoot-Suit "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Fingerprints over wide retro designs
going easily increasingly exacting
ending up unbuttoned once shunned
and still wondering ruggedly ugly
giving up on a cult of filament bulbs
for unsung cocktail bums as young
as they come gone bust


adopting intolerably gentlemanly fop
daubing improbabilities on avatars
gone to seed with tweed auditing
muscle memories while donning
white jeans of tear-dropped androgyny
and dangling funky-chunky love beads


dark and dirty more trick than treat
blanketed by extremes in locked-door mysteries called "weapons of war"
deemed to be exceedingly
nondescript soul definitions


raising fears of crime scenes
while buzzing someone in
criminalistically privy to hospice
toy sifters bedbound in tiny houses
for lowbrows losing ground to the down
and out just below holes on the ozone



funding fragility with unlimited liquidity
inapplicable to vigorous models of risk
slumping sharply teetering on the brink
of re-entry outlined by fragrance lines
launched by retired astronauts
while trimming trees' genes
weightlessly breathtaking


previously shady gone crazy
through the tangle of hard-to-tame
de-layering without raiding
sorting and grading generous spaces
on great drainage with with communion
wafers never worthy of the day


finger high by the way
with an eerily lifelike artificial leg
in the entranceway after a rain
of discarded negatives like forensic
facial recognition in the raw space
of a loft with plenty of storage
in the understory of a husky mother
lugging a yak rug and coffee carafe


floundering around in more
permanent digs sounding dorky
inside file drawers of easy to parody
quirky cedar potpourri hanging
like CliffsNotes over well-weathered dough bowls with the door left open
at its high point unrealized genuinely inspiring in elusive pursuit
of the all consuming
attempts to empty filled shoes
of pre-conclusions in a zoot-suit...

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Being Banished to the Boonies

" Being Banished to the Boonies "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


As a charming somewhat
sincere but sloppy
assembled posse
of aged artists
under a fond gala
for wanderers
in comical dottiness
and serial melancholy


treading with a lecherous
smiley cherub of nonetheless
while dozing off now and then
with an all-of-a-sudden sullenness
minus jealousness cunningly constructed while clocking in
with transfixing precision


getting out of prison
smugly in sync
unwittingly inhibited
after giving in to a to-do list
of pyrotechnic for instances
favoring the ignition of exoticism


with the quasi-legal methods
of a crooked sheriff misdirected
by peripatetic disconnectedness
narrowly avoiding death
with laconic likeableness


cruising past in straw hats
into rootin'-tootin' massacres
with the spit-and-polish carnage
of bottom-dollar mobsters incarnate


felled by am ineptly executed
droopy bolt out of the blue
after snooping with the hubris
of a fool in a car pool
speeding through a peculiarly
dead-end future
with a well-groomed dark-hued
tuned-up pluralism


jolted by micro-tonal modes
breaking the molds
bowled over by boldness
blighted by foreclosures
in strategic overloads
of solo shows while on the dole
swallowed whole truth be told
starring a one-note mostly


as a sticky gooey goof
in an isolation booth
billed as a debut
by obliquely moving
between the mes and yous
of obtuse muses
sadly hackneyed
as an oblique cacophony
steeped in chaotic themes
being banished to the boonies...

Friday, June 14, 2013

Alasly Pinball Mad

" Alasly Pinball Mad "


by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


In the days of leading up
to never recovering
convincingly procedurally
as partly ticking bombs
under moving targets

skyrocketing
whirl lap and roll
holed up playing roles
of rope-a-dope lingoes
straightforwardly
going to the gallows


braving reverie
craving accumulations
of pinball stations
once enslaved
widely associated
with evil plantations
for the nostalgically
middle-aged
in breakaway states
of bars and cafés


becoming undone
by ruby-slippered
flippers of defunct
companies
like chronologies
of tchotchkes


as seen in Eden
on battlefields
missing in action
emptied of people
out of step with history
debuting in a showpiece

almost exactly
as market spun bad luck
after changing names
across the embattled
backers of tattered flags


reading spot-on magazines
while fleeing in shirt sleeves
scything over wheat
basically and indistinguishingly
cheery while fetishistically
resembling distraught doilies


hoarding hangings from ceilings
as apocalyptically stitched
free-form embroidery
sheathed with sequins
and cheap beads

in linear treatments
slinking funkily and kinkily
adding and tweaking
imaginative leaps
into mysterious
vats of vivacity


complicated pictorially
as topographical maps
of vacuous caverns overpacked
with multifarious longhand


punctuated by pencil shavings
like pugnacious miscalculations
of myth-saturated gray snakes
of twisty sophistication


wriggling with instances of shed skin
simultaneously writhing
in the final minutes
of sinking scrimshawed whaling ships
as knickknacks and bric-a-brac
in the sewing baskets
of tyrannical sea captains
are lavishly lashed to the mast


flagged in handwritten thickets
of psychic splits encrypted
with cross-stitched
tripped-up hindrances
like channel-flipped
kitschy rituals
riveted by gadgets
still flapping
as champion damsels
of the alasly pinball mad...

Wantin' to Brag 'bout a Grab Bag

" Wantin' to Brag 'bout a Grab Bag "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


An irreverent upstart
up and coming
mined secrets
subscribing to disbeliefs


surreptitiously grasping
at wantin' to brag
'bout a grab bag
impeccably hairless
ripped at the chest


merely decorative
as an imperative
little to do
with a weathered
far better
like time-yellowed
minutiae-packed
au naturels


shaping a pal-lavish statue
before and after
third-world laughter
no matter how crass the facts


as seemingly last-chance
answers of pragmatic
physical attractiveness
for frankly minor characters


being stared at
suspiciously skin deep
coated in cold cream
as a relief for not being pretty
in a classic cock-in-a-henhouse play


nicely understated
going no place
outlasting
latter-day saints
as rules give way
to snakey
staying power
of an elaborately
fanciful all-star cast


bluntly declared
thankfully standard
as habits of having
the formidable flair
of serviceable crafts
for whatever happens
unfairly at random


signing away shares
banded as unanswered
founded thereafter
without releasing
coquettish details
of the tales diagramed
by an overcalling declarer


leading the club jack
and overruffing the dummy
forewarned about bad trump
by pyramids of purple
heads in buns without standing up
for the troubled imitations of one
another as subtle everyones


transfixed by twitchy fingers
and darting feet mimicking
rogue peace nominees
during lab procedures
in munitions depots


oozing aching the most
dog trainers saying "Follow!"
dry as a bone read as bar codes
grooved in a cratered road
all in a row yellowish as a lion's coat...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

X Marks the Spotty

" X Marks the Spotty "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Giving and taking
no longer cooperating
assisting the aging
as purveyors of fate
in chilling states of play


overtaken by lack
of motivation
after collapsing
under massive
give backs


looking for answers
in dialed-up disasters
without taking care
of mismanaged
health care practices


giving full access
to supernatural
familial anguishes
addled by false practices
of unnavigable regulatory tangles


significantly winnowed down
by high-risk committees
minus propositions for face lifts
while pushing for stock splits


escalating divisions
overtaken by monopolists
fronted by congresses
exercising low-cost options
on unplotted back lots
of minted profits
reaped top to bottom...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Failing to Recreate History

" Failing to Recreate History "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Nasty business
caught in the middle
of vaunted pitchmen
targeted by opposition
while losing interest
in the backfield


failing to recreate history
for the sport of kings
slivering promises
wherever they may lead


leaving rangers reeling
unflinchingly
with nondescript
stiff upper lips
having never been licked


facing deficits
staring at exits
with change ups
over the plate
in playoffs


crashing the crease
over two periods
closer to tees
of yo-yo feelings


betwixt and between
slightly smaller niches
barely even while trailing
and blowing kisses
into the stands

as thanks to madly
cheering fans
in sun-drenched handicaps
contingent on status
beneath canopies of fallout


stepping on the gas
waving and clapping when asked
on smaller scales
making good on brash first classes


held captive beneath the basket
tipped off of the rim above scrutiny
of the all too brief happy meals
while slipping off double dribbles


cringing with a balky knee
that doesn't point fingers
as games slip away
sideways unlike untidy remains
of fast breaks haphazardly rotated


sapped by the slightest drag
of teensy-weeny disparities
of elite talent faring badly
under strict salary caps


as the magic runs out
overbid by now
seen as invaluably erratic
luxury taxes meant to oust
tens of thousands
with less ab and more flab
while riding waves of beach hair...

Twirling Curiously

" Twirling Curiously "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Blended and aged
rumbling expressively bass
in snappy catalogs


overspilling irrepressibly
across clarion bedrock
harmonically
spearheading a cappella
in sensuous mindsets
of musical depths


as previously felled facets
with whoops and shouts
of spirituality attesting
alertly and eloquently
to orchestral treks


vivid trajectories
twirling curiously
mercifully woozy
good-humoredly
ignoring rebukes


amusedly deadpan
interchangeably
funny yet trenchantly
overextended


laughably old-fashioned
tooling around
in a vintage tram
dropping food wrappers


as aphrodisiacs
for litterbug bashers
replete with pieces of trash
in prized caravans


unlikely to travel
while howling
and rattling throughout
public reprimands
for a burly family man


lacking in class
with a feeble laugh
igniting brutality
by spinning on carnage
like co-starring pop-ups
as short stops


coming to grips
with much-filmed
swingers
spray cleaned
by right-leaning
Polynesian drinks
for sightseers


squeegeed by grievously
shorn beards
as snobbery disappears
finishing differently...

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Owning Up to Speaking Up

" Owning Up to Speaking Up "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Kicked in the head
as a matter of seconds
facing up to breaking up


as fracasful situations
haunt relationships
owning up to speaking up


delivering blows
with one-joke slogans
scheming to take over


muddied states
of soft-spokenness
fully disclosed


girlish antidotes
as subplots cohere
reeking of false bonhomie


bursting into tears
coming out swinging
with last-minute tweaks


less intriguing credos
as sentimental so-and-sos
thanks mostly to tenacious holds


playing roles
of unspeakable
voice overs
like bloated contrarians
short on details


self-deluded self-invented
overdone accents
of controlled vertigo


in vocal face-offs
of bravado's falsettos
or so the saying goes...

Uncertainty May Weigh

" Uncertainty May Weigh "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Uncertainty may weigh
like high stakes
without explanation


downsized globally
in take downs
ruled out in households


being squeezed
by immediacy
at high speed


as staffs shrink
in startup
parent companies


running interference
lacking cash at hand
testing mishaps


as batteries
for crash landings
while on the lam


masochistically
disenchanted millionaires
taking stands


featuring indie gigs
freaking out people
in pool parties


taking cues
from lucrative violinists
as timpanists whale away


in carefully controlled flames
while swiveling their shoulders
spotlights on both


full-fledged showmen
plunk pianos
hampered by unraveling


feeling mighty glad
including magnets
forecast like laps


gone off track
after grappling
with no matter...

Monday, June 10, 2013

Clip-Clopping Electronically

" Clip-Clopping Electronically "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Keepers of the flame
for facetious nicknames
punctuated by craggy landscapes


haphazardly lacking in multi-faceted
solidarity clawing at imagination
like ravenously shattering glass


splayed with mendacity
in an animal's lair
bypassed by corporeal caravans


in layers of lint and fabric
watched by cantankerous anglers
rapidly wagging burrows' tails
whips in hand


existing to please
as scant vulnerability
in soliloquies of, " Oh, lordy"
stomping in disharmony


behind blustery facades
of rebellious patriarchs
tempests at heart


fed up, upended
by long-held nonsensical
intelligence directorates


with groundbreaking expected
not to mention a cappella
senses of non melodies


switching easily
between rapping and singing
clip-clopping electronically


tough gal urban poverty
flat out bursting at the seams
lyrics flinging in performance pieces


fostering collegiality
in tilting funhouses
of leacherous pomposity


within wishy-washy inviolable
pocket lobbies hopscotching
with enduring monotony off rooftops...

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Sensitive to a Fault

" Sensitive to a Fault "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Sensitive to a fault
out of respect for the source
foregoing walks


perplexing artifacts
flirting with the banal
however melancholy


while longing to sing
hard-drinkingly
during flings
with mummies


as clumsily as mixed up nuts
bustily loosened up
by the ultimately troubled


chain-smoking doldrums
leaching toxicity
like reality shows without notions
of pleadingly old wheelbarrows
being rolled over uncohesive
cobblestones of foreboding
onetime poets as voice-overs drone


interposed with little-known
funny-bone oldies
like second-hand smokes
lauded as heroes


charmingly silly yet lethal
scintillatingly reconfigured
figurines over snazzily
pale-pink altarpieces


steering clear of, "You are here!"
like chiming blessings in high decibels
emblematical of matrimonial fragments
trapped in tapestries as ominous
coats of arms with medical problems


mismatched as the heads or tails
of Rennaisance dancers disenchantingly choreographed
with the overlapping calibers
of intangibly scarred madness


confounded by stacks
of divergent reactions
for potted plants
aligned within the matchstick
gaps of hand-sized canvases in sand...

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Across the Grain

" Across the Grain "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Across the grain
pointedly brazen
disinformation
forced into labor
in public service
campaigns


invariably irritating
bullying classmates
laughingly named,
" Bully Pullingpits "


savagely crass
numbingly vulgar
fluctuatingly
treacherous
hairpin bends
voided at the center
outsmarting themselves
with TV spreads


eclipsed by cable
and naysayers
these days
shrinking in length
like the most highly
anticipated
of coach potatoes


showcased
like thinly sliced
spuds of a lifetime
transplanted
as eyes statewide


harvested
with bull market velocity
on first come
first served bases
as unsavory
transformations of clichés


for the highest paid
modern adaptation
rising from the ranks
with heavy weight
living arrangements


seemingly satiated
by the rarified tastes
of a scarily
friendly stranger
jokingly complaining
prettily framed...

Friday, June 7, 2013

Still at Large

" Still at Large "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Still at large
on swaths of have-nots
under the radar
as snarkily partisan
non responses
swelling with unorthodoxy


like privacy policies
of stealing identities
while openly sparring
with total disregard
for potential involvements
of undeferred options


save for an unthinkable
and unstoppable
omnipresent slap shots
into non prominence


unhappily transplanted standing
over an energetically seedy airstreams
shaking heads steadily
earning accolades in isolation
as campily iconoclastic
go-go dancers with steamy laughs


little more than intelligence
collected like highly classified threats
secretly harvested as conferences
and logins while denying knowledge
of dollars spent to stretch protections
incidentally as wars end


continuing wrestling with tickling keys
throughout beat-up cities
in sunken plazas of major categories
like sharp-tongued hangdogs
crackling as crowd-pleasing recalls
of unrewardingly feel-good forces


played by strangers
in outdoor locations
unpainted and redecorated
like bracing portrayals
of grouchy households


redacted by black
splash splashes
where caring is scarce
randomly and in tandem
with tap water lapping
after flowing backwards
into zero gravity...

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Breeze Freely to Eternity

" Breeze Freely to Eternity "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Die-hard
human rights
derided
by security advisers
like tiny
fossil primates
uncovered while
seeing eye-to-eye
as uprisings coincide
with funereal rites


lifting age
requirements
for decaying
remains
stagnating
at an annual rate
pre-dating
nearly completed
Encyclopedic
spring gleanings
of forever reeling
rock-strewn streets
teeming
with meager
allegiances


over-relying
on property spikes
from drone strikes
like unconstrained
highlights on the rise
by land and air
notwithstanding
happily ever after
state broadcasts
under raised flags
pressed by antagonists
asked to share
vengeful actions
as classical strategies
of steadfast happenstance


unseeingly
sedating
as undulating
escapist wakes
breezing freely
to eternity
reconnoitering
in ports of call
with rhetorical
discourses
as historical
points
of avoidance...

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

No Second Acts

" No Second Acts "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


No second acts
for two principle dancers
as dates pushed back
in annual marathons


reluctant to carry out
orgasmic fragments
in adagio codas
for luminous sopranos


running head to head
as unusually fetching gems
of mutual benefits
for the most inventively
heartfelt bucolic tendencies


just a bushel and a peck
of elegies to whomever else's
precedents of the indelibly
misspent opening melody


overstretched
tenderness
as inceptions
of mirrored
muscle memory
in jazzy inflections
of the pelvis


elegantly commemorative
carriages of the head
jangling geometrical mastery
as rapturous swashbuckling vivacity


unabashedly scrabbling
as madcap latter day glam
flippantly frisky
selfishly strong willed
depicted on a financial cliff
heat seeking as a quicksilver dinner



winning recognition
unappealingly charming and witty
twitching with reciprocative
dovetailing twists
like stressors of social etiquette

unpopularly meant
as oddball gestures
of hermetically
ingenuine conventions
for unbridled heroines
of oppression


on uninhabitable planets
with backstories of gas pedals becoming depressed to the metal
as breathless and sweaty
sloughed-off exoskeletons
in pursuit of longevity

shot with toxins to the forehead
as do-it-yourselfers inject
missing credentials of pessimists
suppressing hidden defects
of parental identities
with jury-rigged toddler fetes
with poor air quality

mottled during muddy springs
with disruptive shadings
of outlined shapes
maladjusted to change
firmly in place as adaptation
tapering in high-aspect ratios


like the most awkward of titles
as contrivances of quirky styles
for peering dark eyes
of obscure archives
arduously sliding
the wooden side
of a bow on the stretched strings
of a missing sibling postponing dreams


between freedom and duty
precisely antsy keeping the beat
with the red ink of singsong funding
as self-indulgence of aging mothers
depressing buttons


shamelessly gatecrashing
rejuvenation locations
skillfully deranged
inspiring avid conversations
during cringe-making escapes
over check-mated byways


gliding in bygone pilotless planes
replete with dashes of restraints
concocted as downed platters
of canvassed eyecandy
then chugged like tumblers
of biitered slings
as classically as Old Fashioneds...

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Headstrong Heroine

" Headstrong Heroine "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Full swinging a must
long putters
out of the rough


non-confirming clubs
beefing up their coverage
banning anchor putts


breaking camels' backs
happily ever after
practical folk dance


in a gripping hand
three-month feedback period
major belly putts


oft-bit tradition
even in the chill drizzle
snake bit in sand pits


fraught with pitfalls
smoke-clouded halls
as fast catamarans
try to capture
strategic advantages


bystanders turn autocratic
in haunting photographs
of foiled withdrawals
deluded by swooping
conclusions slumping anew


invaluable tools
for traitorous moves
minus credulity
by swabbing cheeks
for Wikileaks
still under appeal
citing societal fears
over secretive years


suspects stumble
into the custody
of plundered currency
upended by death receptors
in testings of centers of attention
on cliffhanger elements
for genetic redemption off the record
as outside investors attest
to immunotherapy
as far less of ex-execs


salesmen of scandals
drop brands that don't add
up as reduced capacity
prior to collapse of broadbands
for newly available air
with strong demand
as sweet spots for sales


brashly flashing past
fast-paced disgrace
in the cross hairs
of stark contrast
to rough drafts

in paeans to forbearance
as large shares
still riveted by secretive sins
less slowly Minimalistic
like bullheaded dominance
in testaments to self-austerity
with public indebtedness
being credited
to a headstrong heroine...

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Far-Flung Hokum

" Far-Flung Hokum "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Milling around an unruly house
of middlebrows as throwbacks
to lackluster humbug
poster subjects in small numbers
of disco funk with unaccompaniments
undercut by unsung lady bugs


still lining up with fingers on the pulse
of the cunningly ho-hum
covered up with far-flung hokum unbecomingly debunked
by humdrum from down under


undoing something percussive
undeserving of a sendup
for a maudlin trumpeter
on taut drums buffed up
by a rumba of aye carumba


cranked up in reruns
of the just as funnily
unvulnerable like one
no trump with an ace club
being lead from the dummy


hair spiked up in a toss up
without much fun after trying to recover
from a fully-loaded shotgun
of sordid love already abducted
without a struggle after caddying
for a long summer as a curmudgeon
lugging titanium clubs...

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Knacks for Imbalance

" Knacks for Imbalance "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


In the right mood
like hyper-verbose
wholly irrelevant
sexual identities
as teasingly
semi-surreal
perversity


keenly curdling
unbecomingly
overstuffed
with eccentricities
as marble-mouthed
musings of majesty
with unraveling
knacks for imbalance
called, "jams"


serenely chilly
ends and means
less scary
more enchanting
beyond the capacity
of taken-for-granted
fairy tales


drained of cultish color
from stumblingly
suspended disbeliefs
unimpeachably
executed as feats
without missing a beat


as streaks of cruelty backfire
like paranoiac friendly fire
attuned to the slightest match strikes
as thuggish babushkas bite
their tongues with the unpolished cutlery of touched-up plot summaries...

Friday, May 31, 2013

Tales of Fantasy Wag

" Tales of Fantasy Wag "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Difficulties winning
gone missing
under new limits


given lavishly
found out easily
after entering the fifth


under suspicion
as an erratic trip
for the wistful


after breaking in plied by gifts
within an illicitly anonymous
non-profit system


during precipitous crises
whining like a million
cramped and baffling
underhanded answers
in tiny thumb squares


uploaded in huge batches
of ignored lending standards
like stakes-raising elation
with good indications


chuckling away
with prohibitive favorites
as celebrated renegades
in terabyte flavors
of the high-and-mighty
live action as over reactions
spun off as character-clashing
tales of fantasy wag


getting their moxies on
in fictitious memoirs
of voyeuristically
dissimilar mobster hits
as heavy-handed fisticuffs
of fictitious symbolism
befittingly gripping
in a one-act mystery


setting sights on night lights
with skinny black ties
against crisp white
from on on high by starlight
finally labeled with masking tape
on shaking metal trays
minus the substantiation of DNA


intensified by motorized
monotonies vibrating
as eyes widening
like unidentified
high-profile hires
in kaleidoscopic exorcises


making blank payments
to survivors
while self-driving
past fire pits
on coastlines of scathed
nations with fabled
blood and betrayal
as lost relations
of bone decalcification
perform in spaces
with rain-soaked waits...

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Flip-Flops in the Lobby

" Flip-Flops in the Lobby "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Flip-flops in the lobby
and roof-top gardens
of first models facing the park

down to the penny
for decades
needing updating

carpeting is stained
limited cabinet space
north facing

finished basements
don't cooperate
deemed baseless

shooting for the moon
by letting air out
of a balloon

in a buying mood
as pre-approved
consumers

being buoyed
anonymously
and easily

while laundering
dirty money
pre-rinse, wash and spin

in resistance
to the digital spills
of astringent fiscal conditions

like ceremonial first pitches
while clinging to traditions
with over-sized catcher's mitts

squatting with hi-tech chest
protectors and helmets
of tar and resin

a wind up, a hit
and a miss
caught swinging

as absurd purists
backflip
for sponsorships

showing no hints
of pit-bull
tendencies

thick-headed
athletically
as a string of litanies

looping cartwheels
strung out beneath
reaming bleachers...

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Vocal Trickery

" Vocal Trickery "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Vocal trickery
among friends
in an alt-arts mecca
without consequence
forcibly separated from them
already felt as reverie
for identical shells


simultaneously retro
with misdirection
deeply connected
by identical upwellings
as an endless none-the-less


stemming from optimum
ill health lacking in vegetables
with scant attention
paid to Sunday breakfasts'
nutritional contents


anchoring the passages
with body scans
captured in a flash
as an age-old artists' practice
scattering blue-bonnet seed packets


in double helpings
of second natures
name checked
as identically eclectic
generally more-or-less
embellished by exceptions
while making no sense


being stacked in patterns
of unmatched dynamics
by keeping track of ironclad vacs
with twisted tales of wiry hairs
in the peppery ponytails
of a leading man


translated as sex on legs
detangling in chambers
on blood-stained satin capes
waving laptops backstage
as madcap favorites
with plastic fangs


not only zany
but audacious
as snarky montages
of disruptive technology
unsusceptible
to reinvention
at the multiplex


unapologetically angsty
deconstructed mythologies
surging towards the unquenchably
thirsty alive and still working


diffusely perused for abuses
being ballyhooed
during champagne shampoos
harrowingly strait-jacketed
by the dilapidatedly charismatic


in a give and take
collaboration
with banality
as an unthinkingly evil
cliché-ridden citizenry
not fitting in
while firing
a six-figured
nuclear missile...

Monday, May 27, 2013

Sand-Swept Gravel

" Sand-Swept Gravel "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Sand-swept gravel
species accountable
to high pounces
over spotted backs


unpatterned savannas
tall grasses wild cats
reproduced annually
occasionally blackish


tear stains on faces
during predation
in the rain
on a hunting range


in an open plain
swaybacked
with a wasp waist
faster than the fleetest prey


detaining a mate
pouncing play
rufous flanks
unmistakable
pups of late...

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Acorn Finials

" Acorn Finials "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski


Attention spans
shrink
like pirated signals
of origins


rousing curiosities
unspooling
like a cracking
good yarn


as self-consciously
snarling swashbucklers
become ably embodied
where ever the plot wonders


strictly at sea
by inhibiting
walking
with webbed feet


as three species
breed
like little grebes
with yellow cheeks


non-breeding season
awkwardly waddling
gone kaputt
singly and monolithically


bands of orange
applied in top
of uncannily vaginal
painted patina patterns


bunched-up fabrics
bearing monograms
of fenced yards
for hipped-roof barns


scholarly muddy bottomed
short-bodied knock-kneed
third-century cutlery


mixed feelings
for hobbies
of raising bees
being draped in bunting
as symbols of comfort


bidding on silver gilt
with irresistible
acorn finials
without finishing
laboriously stitched


backstories of tragedy
pervading embroidery
instructed in needling
techniques of deer
and funereal wreathes
four- and five- figures each


off-putting dangerous work
being greeted by a bleepity-bleep
perhaps after having had
one too many family samplers
pajama clad showing signs of wear...

Friday, May 24, 2013

Tripods on Mountaintops

" Tripods on Mountaintops "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Not so fast
likely to be a blast
as the last
reinstallation
caught in the embrace
of fresh paint


encountering
old faces
over decades
in stained
glass panes


unconvincingly
reframed
by staid
curators
of conservation
during private
conversations
on Memorial Day


in serious
but funny ways
repatriated
by long-standing
estates with pre-
determinations
of remade relations
with DNA


against a non-
profit backdrop
of impromptu
artists in flip-flops
manicured hardly
as far-fetched manis


transcending
quintessential
blue-chip pressure
coming to resemble
the first time ever
increasing prevalence
of pop-up smarts
like tripods on mountaintops...

Unnamed Targets

" Unnamed Targets "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Unnamed targets
at the heart
of a so-called non-war
within limited uses of forces
reappointed as pinpoints
of global assaults


forged offshore
unremorsefully
written off
as secret
endorsements
of opaque currencies
hacked across
floors and walls


where the living is tidy
fired by design surmised
minus hand-wringing anxiety
sheathed like pythons
opposed to writhing
with the magically dematerialized



strictly bush league
squared off with a woody
flowering tree with shiny leaves
fortified by digging underneath


bloated roadkills
exploding over and over
where the heart isn't in it
somehow dismissed
like the unlikeliest
of infantile ids


wryly whining
divisively as sidekicks
of moneyed bigwigs
lacking credibility
with backstage jitters
in box office hits
vintagely triple billed


soaring villainously
into a trillion roaring winds
diving from cliffs
with slim birds' wrists
furiously flapping
lift and drag...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Prophetic Trenches

" Prophetic Trenches "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Prophetic trenches
beyond a wrench's reach
worth every penny
despite rising temperatures
on asteroids in question


unaware of anyone else
dreamed up by bartenders
as testy epithets
in below ground shelters


looking out of step
while gaining momentum
with star anise
as lemon peels climb out
revived without trying


highball sized
unexamined undersides
beard and porkpie
imbibed wildlife


best described
as too thick to sip
with a cucumber spear
downriver tonic mixed in
with gin on a wide rim


at a low simmer
a touch more bitter
sprinkled with mint
and grainy particulates
between pitchers


with citrus
standing in
above suspicion
like cough syrup
drunk through
a long straw
as a saner choice...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

High-and Medium-

" High- and Medium- "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

High- and medium-
temperature veins
elongated sideways

silver white
striated lath like
on stalactites

cockscomb sulfides
confused with pyrite
remobilize oxidize

since time
tending to crystallize
none survives

stripped away
underlying formations
final sites

names assigned
misidentified
prominent boulder piles

crystallized dikes
unequivocal titles
friable...

Grinding Malaise

" Grinding Malaise "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


The flight of the unlikely
neither clear nor precise
left spiraling
in a death-defying crisis


sitting idly and drying
up beneath spindly
rigs of depletion as cyclones
like insurgencies
reel repeatedly with refugees


immensely irreverent hectoring
without making sense as expletives
reorienting themselves eerily
self-possessed as separate identities
in debris-clogged streets
of casualties wiped clean


at a cut-rate
annualized pace
while death rates
climb for migrants


as audacious free-
wheeling tornadoes
lethally circulate
across the great plains
on a fateful day in May


unable to turn the page
after twisted devastation
grinding malaise slinking away
while yanking at expectations...

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Clench-Fisted Twister Haiku

" Clench-Fisted Twister Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Clench-fisted twister

incoming rumbling funnel

severe pummeling



school-structure rubble

muddles of thunderous glum

crushing succumbing...

Monday, May 20, 2013

A Trio of Prequels

" A Trio of Prequels "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


A trio of prequels
fulfilling the needs
of mocked-up scenes
good for staging
set pieces
out of sequence
like general ideas
in fiery atmospheres


rendering the fat
off of animals
in walkways
and on ladders
seamlessly captured
with handfuls of scratch


symbiotically charismatic
tracked down by the bafflement
of unfounded maximalists with prowess
testing the colossal "how"
in all-consuming offshoot movements
by cruder interviewers
suffused with absolute ambiguities


like conduits of artistry
leaning on what seems to be
without noticing staked-out
cinematic chatting
finally cracking down


with six figures
and little filtering
of the familiar inner
framed in irksome
buttoned-up
all-of-a-suddens
while huddling
with bulky
comeuppance
done full justice
as sullenness
creeping up
in close-ups...

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Borrowed Mostly

" Borrowed Mostly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Borrowed mostly
unaccompanied
indebted deeply
to near compatibility


merely piecing
epitomes by giving in
to lumbering start-ups
proceeding wearily


unleashing pie-
baking giants
dangerously leaked
by wee companies
in between
communal bondings


progressively
be-bopping
into supremely
modest modicums
of close-cropped
cosmopolitan ardencies


swapping febrile lap ups
with blackmailed aspirations
while making the case
for dramatically slap-dashed
whole lotta fancies


as laughing gas
sets the standards
of feeling the tedium
all too vividly...

Eyes of the Spider Still Life

" Eyes of the Spider Still Life "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Head banging away
with a sung-through nature
erasing narration
as elusive as spaces
between tables
while a faint polonaise
plays with a hip-hop flavor
ranging from folksy-favorites
to thumping raves of betrayal


interpolated as craters
resembling decorated graves
folded and faulted farther north
as feldspar and quartz
uncomfortably far from wars
when pity turns into the torment
of awe in a furious offshore


sounding bullhorns
as spoilers
dangling like cat toys
in the comfortless flat
of a nefarious assassin
with impious disparities
like spidery species
during molting periods


appendages flex
against shedded
exoskeletons
with victims
surrounded in silk


on the debit side
of divine rights
with zero lot lines
as places to hide
from crises
of ideologies
while tugging
on heartstrings
and sucking arteries


acknowledged
by black-clad
activists incanting
natural disasters
in the badlands
of greenhouse gases
and tar-sands
extractions' aftermaths


spread accidentally
feeding stealthily
on bumblebees
in mimicry of extremes
seldom seen
by the majority
with consummate ease
in bursts of speed


on chocolate-and-cream
floating leaves
dabbling legs
gaping fangs
enzymes on prey
sticky base...

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Nominally Present

" Nominally Present "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Taking the helm
drifting upended
in claret-colored velvet
nominally present
full-metal digital relics
as inaccessible potential threats
of the venerably effortless
comedies of errors


preventable as unmentionables
ludicrously a little ahead
of near echoes testing
the limits of an offense
gone too far arbitrarily blocked
by wonky barroom clods
like plodding homebodies
amid bits of formidable domesticity


almost unbearably
rotating on one leg
even more precariously
flipping switches
into "on" and "off" positions
while whispering vigorously
as fingers slip and smoke billows


flapping unanchored
caution tapes
with brassy cadences
and cool gazes
occasionally deactivated
by carafes of vodka
in synopses of folly...

Almost Invariably Blue

" Almost Invariably Blue "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Almost invariably blue
except the solution
as translucent species


becoming implicitly
bigger like realness
desiring to disappear


in a blinking red light
essentialized entirely
across a knife in writing


more cynical than sinister
science fiction in a hands-off stance
after toppling a mascot's glass
with inaudible commands
quite candidly large scale


incisively sad
caused by the ancillary
brandy of a right-hand man
notwithstanding
after jumping at the chance
of becoming a champion


with a whiff
of chrysanthemums
in exercise class
tails wagging
remaining standing
sussing out the smells
when happy hour ends...

Friday, May 17, 2013

Like Outcries

" Like Outcries "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Restricted
by a barricade
system
known as
a sally port
along
with the spare
advantages
of an orb


surmounted
as a cross
outlined
in hoary frost
as an exploitive
offering


hauled until taut
crawling
back and forth
layered across
triangles
of the first fork


with radii
and spirals
like outcries
fetching higher
and higher sites
for fortresslike
top prices


on foot and on bikes
seemingly lifeless
warnings inside
of wireless rites
as security tightening
benday dots
and vertical stripes


in the harsh light
of private hands
with backlashes
from armed camps


as passions of rank
and file ignite
like pop idols
amid violence


on a gridiron
escaping alive
via Wi-Fi
hitting new heights
along fine lines


in an art hive
of clash of the titans
in the absorbent white
of a wandering eye...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Tearing Down

" Tearing Down "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Tearing down
singling out
greater degrees
of new links
at first hearing


as atrocities
for the world to see
dragging bodies
from streets
with depravity
having seized
footage routinely


mounting newly found cut outs
in veiled secrecy while shrinking
from fast-talking fair warnings
at the behest of underlying deficits
in pledges as unusual steps
while showing arresting dilemmas
like preventative removal
of both breasts fueling
trends not medically necessary


as forces withdraw
into broader unusually longer
lingerings in the soil
of tangle-veined decay
in weedy places
with predaceous tapers


outstretched while at rest
with pleas to surrender
when negligence is debated
in opening statements
for separate cases
of addiction medications
as frenetic as incarnations
within columned spaces


saved as odd bits
of information
manically jotted
down on paper
with any number
unctuously
compulsive


held in extreme
dihedral V's
darting erratically
raspily rattling
by burrowing
in banks
while being killed
at hatcheries


ritually tapping
rapidly humming wings
difficult to see
roosting nightly
in cavities
of loose colonies
in heat...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Tremendous Pressures

" Tremendous Pressures "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Tremendous pressures
deflected questions
tepid protections
lethal projections
contentious requests
to the letter
like tips of flight feathers
along a trailing edge


bluish white brackish habitats
hardly distinguishing
between wintering and breeding
by melodiously whinnying
while suffering staggeringly
buzzy and slithery tens of billions
of deceptively simple
bristle-tipped whopping figures
squirming in the dirt long term


pushing and pulling
as the poles warm
more and more
implausibly low balling
without warning
as irrational actions
of ingenuity and craft
in frisky dances
of perilous practices


suddenly falling
sullenly mourning
flinging handfuls
of water overboard
all according to a core
of unmannered sorts
in a roomful of small talk
as well-clawed-long-horned borers...