Balanced Brokenness Haiku Series

"Balanced Brokenness Haiku Series"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Its epicenter
as bottoming out markets
crawl away on floors


shaping legacies
ignoring one another
the cost of running


jarring disconnect
partly for fear of losing
conditioned reflex


must be vigilant
eyes lowered, traumatic stress
very slow tempo


webs of confusion
vociferous convergence
self doubts, turned around



barreling ahead
essential prerequisite
ragtag banishment


busiest, strangest
mistaken identities
reliably shy


much genuine joy
at the mercy of street noise
stone-faced, falling short


false discoveries
unscripted equivalence
50/50 splits


little argument
deliciously devious
keen cringe worthiness



heavy exhaustion
challenging audiences
not at all scary


recited flatly
obligatory tension
balanced brokenness


breathy urgency
purposely disconcerting
booming and jangling


buoying down moods
surging triumphalism
shoulder-drooping heft


lead vocal, slow jam
powerful benefactor
without the baggage


near minor leaguer
paying little royalties
shortly be rolling


even in downloads
strikingly posed nowadays
vaudevillian's canes...

Extreme Triumphal Weeding Haiku Series

"Extreme Triumphal
Weeding Haiku Series"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Before a hoedown
phantom barnyard grasses sprout
troweling turnarounds


cloned near cluttered homes
entering without knocking
hollow-sounding bash


skeletal remains
delving into detritus
trauma to the head


slogging in the yard
abandoned homes, emptied lots
donning barbed wire


drowsily zig-zagged
knowingly showing and shown
profiled prone to lows


paying top dollar
admirably acknowledged
me-too worlds of art


later-day khaki
all-seeing eye survivors
camouflaged fatigues


feisty, brass-knuckley
eminently trust worthy
long after cancer


invasive species
extreme triumphal weeding
hosed down high-waisted


expecting to pitch
emissaries of good will
yelling "frond" farewells...

Once Sacrosanct Haiku Series

" Once Sacrosanct Haiku Series "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Rascals and heroes
balk and bunt soliloquies
a swing and a miss


hammering homers
called safe, once sacrosanct games
baseball doggerel


tailgated throwbacks
bowlegged and shovel handed
launched bottles from fans


emptying dugouts
disputed umpire calls
cagey padded masks


called out, caught fowl balls
colliding with the scoreboard
sticking mitts skyward


earmarkings on cards
pin-striping, exhausted hearts
dropping like birds shot


spit ephemera
batting cleanup at the plate
crazed stadium waves...

Winked Objective Eyes Haiku Series

"Winked Objective Eyes Haiku Series"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Rub elbows, glad hand
offer pithy reflections
buckraking circuits


speechmaking gold mines
rightly provide asylum
defying padlocks


hope for better ties
diplomatic full-court press
tension on the line


emulate rivals
helicopters crowding skies
unnervingly gray


opening tumult
proposed rules not watered down
well capitalized


safety and soundness
consumer fragility
focus on a niche


raided and detained
heartbreak rather than blind rage
tunneling profits


sources of worries
not entirely steady
seemingly sincere


arguments swirling
prior to opening night
winked objective eyes


demeaned desires
histories of agitprop
touted tuneful howls


doting on daughters
case studies in confusion
father/son resolve


concerts in the park
liberal metropolis
curtains coming up...

Blue Halo Haiku Series

" Blue Halo Haiku Series "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Black iridescence
pitching silvery belly
distinct dusky spots


a schooling species
spawning in fresh-water streams
return to the sea


culprits high and low
slowly arcing blue halo
keeping track of odds


forgetting knocking
high anticipation mode
duly set up camp


only a scant few
running to first, third at bat
floor-to-ceiling glass


greeting blood-shot eyes
each flyover in writing
no obvious signs


adding to the din
killed in prison, never tried
for the umpteenth time


lead to a strangler
continued unabated
to the breaking point...

Labored Flirtation Haiku Series

" Labored Flirtation Haiku Series "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


A giant spreadsheet
for normal deliveries
refused all extras


no epidural
sensory experienced
spreading happiness


can and cannot thrust
ancient wisdom, pop culture
minus permission


sciences behind
forming, then breaking habits
intuitionless


primatology
prim-and-proper illogic
hospital charges


feeling overcharged
under a little-known law
flu outbreaks, earthquakes


persistent secrets
birth-inducing pitocin
one-third introvert


conceptual art
sawing, buffing and grinding
precise heat treatments


Minimalistic
edits but no overdubs
long songwriting slumps


withdrawn from running
if no steward comes forward
unwed and pregnant


final three minutes
hearing friction, bow and strings
beating frequencies


nine solo cellos
impressive pianism
slow decaying notes


still brooding bluntly
lacking sensitivity
ex's successes


overpowering
unworkably worsening
real noisy love songs


subtleties of touch
sizzle and rhythmic muscle
unsustainable


binding catalysts
discontinued doormat days
labored flirtation...

Counteracting Trickery Haiku Series

"Counteracting Trickery Haiku Series"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Fond remembrances
everyone's fault--and no one's
summer apricots


most unusual
continuing to perplex
fried okra, sweet smells


longing to return
intrusive reality
small-scale nostalgia


aerial mapping
counteracting trickery
unassuredly


thunderstorms forming
pre-existing conditions
getting hard to tell


field fighting fires
shifting winds of smoke columns
two five-fingered hands


thumb as a pointer
beginning with the pinkie
balled into a fist


hardly disappeared
aerial reconnaissance
minutes and seconds


comparative ease
genetically bloated
protein-coded genes


withstanding stressors
that are not identical
genomes of our own


without its microbes
infecting our ancestors
sudden redundance


healthy mealybug
exists in a tapestry
nestling in life's net


continued instinct
without lifting a finger
manning barricades


recounting leaping
catching reference instantly
minus great surprise


student activists
draw moral comparisons
championed each year


shouted down campus
grappling practicality
remains to be seen


speech is as a plea
closest things, stand up, speak up
aiming, straightened out


like life's companions
as Pluto, the un-planet
cowbells in the Alps


ringing round-the-clock
indulging in nostalgia
clanging round-the-neck


intermission less
distended impermanence
spreading pathogens


forever scanning
mass planning for survival
spiteful planted knives


like spates of hate speech
grasping for unseeable
balky loyalties...

Triage on the Streets Haiku Series

" Triage on the Streets Haiku Series "


by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Smoother roomier
treasures rescued from the sea
weathering the tide


vertebrate species
gleaming isolated isle
succulent lupine


trout stream wild steelhead
strung out interstate highways
halting urban sprawl


unspoken distress
moving farther and farther
folks in trophy homes


gold ring rosaries
sick of vehicular life
picking off stragglers


headed haplessly
as a hero in a cast
imprisoned last ditch


storm warnings ahead
amounts of plunder present
ringed by high dark cliffs


busy in summer
unshakable convictions
disgorged day-trippers


a few notches up
fish for lobster in winter
silent when need be


unlikely partners
services dwindle blight spreads
harsh forces curbed quests


over 50 dead
mass shootings of protesters
injected frenzy


off-the-shelf software
no peace yet, starting stampedes
filling out rosters


coaxing opponents
determined to keep focus
decades-old tactics


tepid inquiries
conspicuously condemned
cells and guard towers


knee-jerk injustice
turncoats opening fire
triage on the streets...

Intermingling Haiku Series

" Intermingling Haiku Series "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Seeking mates all day
active tropical skippers
adherence to each


inclement weather
with antennae straight ahead
dense vegetation


roosting under leaves
returning night after night
upward spiraling


selecting hilltops
territoriality
relatively rare


cannot chew solids
suctorial proboscis
sugar-rich sippings


basking in full sun
darkening scales under wings
frequent alightings


feeding on sap flows
rotting fruit, bird-droppings, dung
rich in saltpeter


restricted courtship
wings wrapping around small twigs
communal roostings


including zebras
caterpillars creamy white
rows of branched black spines


long-lived passion vines
nectaring at alfalfa
hindwings orange brown


wide varieties
heads and bodies shiny red
fields' open edges


black-edged silver lines
eggs in dried-up violets
leafed out fed by night


forested valleys
underside hindwing blue-green
declining species


pointing inwardly
familiar fritillaries
south of the Rockies


yellow-green on top
coniferous woods and bogs
mottled dark blotches


stops only briefly
imbibing alpine species
wetland willow seeps


off-white basal patch
pale purplish lateral
disturbed habitats


like untitled nudes
solarized in a darkroom
never looking back


large bonbon boxes
remaining self-effacing
in bizarre cases


emaciated
displaced faded draperies
detached from restraints


headdress and breastplate
in a dreamy subconscious
with a riding crop


somewhat sinister
eroticism by chance
ironic graspings


exhaustion, feared loss
maternal isolation
hate and holocaust


undeniable
threatened annihilation
encircling the head


suffused jewelike lights
instilling lightheadedness
dizzying decent


paler than red-necked
especially on the head
russet upper breast


locally common
calling nasal, "wide-a-wake"
not unlike noddies...

Side-Stepping in Spaghetti Westerns

"Side-Stepping in Spaghetti Westerns"


by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Seemingly
uncomplicated
meanings
galvanizing
urgency


underscoring
navel-gazing
copper inlays
of dusky colored
license plate numbers


playing patty-cake
with ceramic cats
back to back
on easel-sized canvases


letters and spectacles
of mythic stature
dressed nattily
across a belly-
dancing heartland


formerly gregarious
loving parents
briefly keen
as tacky trappings



hollow reliefs
slouchy earthy
like benign laugh lines
catering to tai chi



regretting the ease
of the man on the street
numbing visually
mildly creepy


noisily fidgety
minor keys
as slyly surprising
bribed smiles


proved unreliable
while side-stepping
in spaghetti westerns...

Eternally Fraught

"Eternally Fraught "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Eternally fraught
in a body of charcoal
and pencil spacial wit
tilting and bending


snarling nosying around
in unembellished backgrounds
of salvaged irregularities of cowardice
fleshed out lobed as oddly mediocre


multiple solos
as accumulations
of snaky scrapings
from hokey-pokeying grownups


lacking tangible access standing back
as ecclesiastical haberdashers
considered miraculous


soot-sodden chintz
reverting to illegible prints
of sacrificial offerings



facing leaded windows
cruel and fickle scalloped trim
of unpaid bills with matching pink slips


hand-written scripture
under the dreamed-up covers
of an unsaintly laity...

Ending Up Beneath the Knee

" Ending Up Beneath the Knee "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Bolstering a theory
while packing
for a phantom
camping trip


sunbathing
eating meals
in matching
platinum wigs


driving down
perfectly fine
twisty highways


gearing up
to backing up
into pop-up
campers


slathering
naughtily
serene
sunscreen
onto alter egos


ending up
beneath the knee
like quintessentially
short-term memory


tellingly as tests
of intolerance
held incommunicado
during unstoppable marches



with claims of wanting
while keeping the lights on
by seizing upon equally targeted
retrofitted dollars as mystical manna


celebrating impassive intensity
ho-humming heavily
with no loss of vivacity
visited weekly


no doubt masking
a world passing
without a good night out
soaring up and across
six stories


few branches
and no leaves
of bronzed trees
sooty to garishly flickery


getting too big for skittery
artist colonies in teasingly
promising googly eyed dioramas


as scribbly hurkey-burleys
drawn firmly against whimsically
whirl-like indie filmings...

On Drill Hall Walls

" On Drill Hall Walls "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


On drill hall walls
stand ins
for pornographic
bits


discovered napping
in trappings
of scabrous
life casts


Old Masters
on the cusp
of barely there
"Who Cares?"


grabbing handfuls
of hard-to-imagine
smashed flasks of mead


as not-so-happy
apple-cheeked
combatants
toss Molotov
cocktails


loaded with codified
meanings
of incendiary motifs


severed heads
re-invent themselves
as self-erected
talking heads


stripped of anecdote
and sentiment
in the midst
of a slip


tendered as texts
of disturbing
tightrope treks


with the unwillingness
of the invisibility
filtered by still lives
of gilt lilies


in decomposition
come to whisper
as placated flames
of embers of irritation


shivering down the spine
naked to the waist
with a curved breastplate


inappropriately pervasive
as claimed chaos
forged in chains
of displaced manifestations


bereaved of nature
like alchemous civilizations
opposed to arcane reawakenings
spangling with the sacredness
of star-dusted divination...

A Rank-and-File Coronavirus

" A Rank-and-File Coronavirus "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Almost a sideshow
for a rank-in-file
coronavirus
at the right spot
multiple times
in tizzies worldwide


looting cash pools
of unflappable multitudes
long abandoned
by convulsive coups
as unavoidable truths


hackers inherit the earth
like wizardly cybercriminals
hanging by threads
of non-momentum
putting down pens
with no applause
whatsoever


as tummy muscles
full of bluster
from whale hunters
of blubber
claim prize money


freshly-baked
maiden-made
hairsprayed
layer caked surnames
in their larval stage


spread open
cocked slightly
ganging upside down
on unlikely sites


tufted long fine
sandy pine
serpentine
roadsides


clubbed horns
violet in fall
tawny forewings
milkweed
in the morning


male nectarings
moist prairies
tall grasses
wetlands


feathery grace
short range
machine-gun paced
pulsing brain waves
widely contemplated
primitive explanations


as rare stragglers'
rumps and tails
purring, "chrrrup"
drooping teetering



seen robbing
on the wing
hovering plunging
soaring scavenging
glaucous wings
pink feet...

Storybook Charm

" Storybook Charm "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Storybook charm
jarred
by a water park
for privileged toddlers
flip-flopping
onto mom-and-pop
indoor docks


noviced tinderboxed
anomalies
of unlikely monuments
for blockbustered
housing projects


dressing the part
in snapshots
of hotshots
as upstarts
for hiphop


bizarrely disco-esque
trafficked imaginatively
conjuring nighttime crises
heated by extreme bonfirings


as trusty bows and arrows
pierce inflatable rescue boats
demanding body microphones
for scissor-legging theater goers


ka-chinging lingos
as brandings
for leaping dancers
standing down
reaching out


commandeering
buttery popcorn seasons
freely released in theaters
for all the wrong reasons
during scene stealing



admonishing bursts of birdshot
while waving flags of endangered faces
feeling the stinging of harshening fees
of fiber-optic spying companies


angered over secret
security agreements
not covering
maternity leave


leading to stealthy birthings
withdrawing their pay day
the American Way
by ousting payouts
filed way too late


lightheartedly novel
hitting the charts
blinded by bling
trumpeting celebrity
dizzily peacocking
with the downbeat of Ming...

Without Falling for the Fries

" Without Falling for the Fries "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Without falling for the fries
of daily life served on the side
like many a bike
training wheels thrust aside
frames riding high past hydrants


storm waters running off
like unverifiably dark thoughts
pre-emptively emboldened anonymously with Internet ubiquity
being leaked confidentially


trimmed with purple piping
for outdoorsy types
signed up online as eye-
catching positive vibes


not necessarily jibing
sipping from carafes
of chilled wine
while holding pedaling
feet to the fire...

Peppered Just Around the Edges

" Peppered Just Around the Edges "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for SD


Unable to visit
while muscling in
unheeded and undermined
like shoulder-fired green blight


stepping down
coming around
after being
heat-seeked
profoundly impacted
thickened and blackened


rescinded decisions in cinders
of volatile silhouettes in gas-rich
emirates with limited efforts
on incidental weapons
as accidents of nothing yets


considered legends
like unintelligible lessons
peppered just around the edges
of meant insteads


tantalizingly threaded
with dreaded irreverence
for irrelevance
like nervous suspects
of incredibleness
as legacies


mutilated by makeshift ridicule
heard and unheard-of
as steady work for murmured
last words...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!!!!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...