"Doing a Handstand in a Dress"...

"Doing a Handstand in a Dress"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Doing a handstand in a dress
imperfect but memorable
with a ruffled hem
draping steadily overhead

arms outstretched
palms beckoning
at the cultural level

grasping grassy
green strands
bearing yellow
flower petals
clamped into fiery
red hair bands

picked by hesitant hands
sitting or standing
nude or half-dressed...

""A Familiar Funny Face"...

" A Familiar Funny Face "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A familiar
funny face
hours later

just savoring
side-by-side
laugh lines

generally recognized
along sidewalks
and up in trees

like crows' feet
positioned
strategically

amazing to see
frenzied guffawing
along punchline marquees

downing throwback candies
like chuckles
and circus peanuts

while canoodling
in vintage
gingham T's

sporting
gold-leaf
platform sneaks

dashing
slick-backed
locks

giddily languishing
as sanguine as cracked-up
'n' raspy deadpan laughs...

"Clinking Glasses"...

" Clinking Glasses "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Clinking glasses
holding hands

oblivious to happiness
or even fling material

as flimsy transparency
skittishly battling

sheepishly laughing
long-lasting
giggly submissions
to passion

as if by accident
miraculously compatible...

" Days After "...

" Days After "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Days after
stirred-up
tactical plans

seizing a chance
long forecasted
almost daily

as standard
bearers
taken to task

channeling talent
into the weathered abstraction
of polling data patterns

simulating passion
with blunt captions
like, " Cheap Chic
Made Shabby "
by the digitally savvy

while preening
for the camera
navel gazing
being overshared
in the aftermath...

"Facing a Wait"...

" Facing a Wait "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Facing a wait
for promising
situations
snatched away
game changing

staggering
as of late
muscles
straining
at odd
angles

effusive with praise
feeling re-envigorated
post delay of game
with minutes left to play

achieving
back-to-back
gains via
top-ranking
understated
inner strength...

"Ancestrally Linked"...

" Ancestrally Linked "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Ancestrally linked
plucked and plinked
apron strings

as siblings and offspring
embody tradition
plus gimmickry

intermixing familial
lively liberties
with stoical self-control

evoking the playfully folksy
like rosy-cheeked effusive cuties
unreservedly touchy-feely

mirroring tweens'
throbbing beats
eurythmically
pulling on heart strings
well into perpetuity...

" Offering Asides "...

" Offering Asides "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Offering asides simultaneously
exciting and frightening
have-it-all styles

within multiple story lines
galvanized by where-
did-that-come-from wildness

atypically quilled as anything-
but-simple individually
inked conflicts

summoning confidence
cohesively lip synced
mimicked free speech

comprised like silent
conspiracy theories
of stinging no-see-ums...

" Pairing Pieces "...

" Pairing Pieces "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Pairing pieces
flattering
flared sleeves
with skinny jeans

donning
cropped
burnt-orange
culottes
and billowy
contrasting-
green tops

pumps
in tangerine
funky sneaks
dangling
earrings

loafers
in whiskey
really
appealing
red
and burgundy

cropped
wide legs
loving
gold lamé

measuring
tapes
simulating
tangles
across
shimmering
slippery satin

interactively
imagined
as an amped-
up fashion
grand slam...

"By the Side of a Runway"...

" By the Side of a Runway "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

By the side of a runway
cameras cutting away
to makeovers backstage

panning right here right away
for can't-wait-highly-curated
showcased fashion plates

as readymades
being cultivated
by, "The Olde Days"

playing with layers
while exclaiming,
" Say it ain't so! "

likened to favorite labels
flagrantly updated
giving way to unexplainable
creatively contained crazes...

" Bearing Seed "...

" Bearing Seed "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Bearing
seed
evergreen

curving
drooping
shoots

rough
and
grooved

pale needles
Atlas cedar
blue-white needles

males pinkish
females
bright green

flat
smooth
cracking

red-
brown
bracts

rounded crowns
purplish
pinkish browns

leaves and flowers
narrow wings
scene in tact...

"Having a Laugh"...

" Having a Laugh "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Having a laugh
telling tall tales
like life after fashion
while meandering
along similar paths
of reflected glare
offered wholesale

spoken in quotes
as "Look Out Belows!"
of long ago
almost
always
post
pushing
artisan
cupcakes

with no holds barred
in snippets of rock and pop
becoming infectiously possible
gone stomping in flip-flops...

"Nearly Inaccessible"...

" Nearly Inaccessible "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Nearly
inaccessible
yet stingingly
influential
with considerable
effort
of the skeptical

resulting in
a consensus
as anti-intellectuals
spout prevention
with little effect

after an arrest
of misidentified
suspects
acting on dimly
lit tips

squeezed in
pinched
divisively
stripped
of dignity

having been
illicitly
glimpsed
while on
the skinny...

"A Warped View"...

" A Warped View "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A warped view
unofficially existing
as an artificial limb

long since foreshortened
by long-running hits
worn thin with urgency

no longer planning to live
cursively transfixed
minute-to-minute

traced with a stiffened
index finger as inked
digit tips in print
flicking the switch...

"No Need to Scribble"...

" No Need to Scribble "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

No need to scribble
in the margins
or on the fringe

while wearing thrift
with silver ribbons
posing for pictures
minute by minute

learning to live
within city limits
mimicking "hip"

inner linings ripped
reading by candles lit in tin
cups sporting slimmer fits

as candle wax
drips on a whim
more conceptual
less expensive...

"Palpable Energy"...

" Palpable Energy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Palpable energy
well within
rock-skipping
distances

being likened
to skimmed
metaphysical
implements

generated
by radiating
wakes
of fascination

originating
overlapping gradients
pitched and slanted
across diagonals

actualized
as side-armed
flat-sided
projectiles...

"High-Flying Over-Lying"...

" High-Flying Over-Lying "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

High-flying
over-lying
milestones
like triumphally
revealed ideas

typifying
segued change
being mined
along veins
of innovative
sci-fi strangeness

garnet feldspar
igneous plutonic
metamorphic rocks
limestone quarries
plate tectonics

drifting farther
embryonic continents
continental margins
having rocketed
to the moon and Mars
via exuberant effusion...

"Back to the Serene"...

" Back to the Serene "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Back to the serene
as street dreams
sun-setting pink

laid-back families
beneath glossy lamps
last recall for out-of-office
crowd-sourced cohorts

kids tucked in
minion-yellow bedding
hashtags trending
while looking well in selfies

in light-diffusing steps
sun and elements
in milliseconds

brims flipped up
purely for function
fittingly funny

overly indulgent
somnambulistically
cultivated bed-headed love...

"Standing Watch"...

" Standing Watch "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Standing watch
over a heartthrob
in settings
of bucolic
camaraderie

tied in knots
stylized
by bygone
seafarers
and whalers
of sailing lore
as long as
a rope maker's coil

joyfully loyal
exposed voices
of "if only"
like love stories
forever foretold
in a solo
as "O Sole Mio"

"What a beautiful thing
the gentle breeze
after the storm
the air's so fresh
it feels like a celebration"...

"Between Sleeping and Waking"...

"Between Sleeping and Waking"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Between sleeping
and waking
slinging arrows
of history and taste

slipped into cubidic quivers
as somnambulant
romantic inferences

disembodied by darkness
aggressively anarchic
still a shocker over a long arc
of orbiting objects

simulating subconsciousness
ingeniously plotted cyclonically
matter-of-factly nightmarish
detachment being crammed
into cerebral nooks and crannies

struggling for balance
in glamorously dizzying gaps
somewhere between manically
batting mascaraed lashes...

" Blending Heritage "...

" Blending Heritage "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Blending heritage
with inclusiveness
like customized
smoothies
hand spun
with the rhythmic
fluid strokes
of high-protein poems
funneled by "Brotherly Love"
served up as scrumptious
Philly-Luscious Spunk...

"Ouchless Bandages"...

" Ouchless Bandages "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Ouchless bandages
far off camera
in the guise
of a grandstanding
laugh track at lambing
time for the unscary

by bleeting and bahing
as a flock in nonstop
responses to " if nots "
and " have nots "

depicted as schisms
in opulence
playing honky tonk
on a lap top...

"Staged Images"...

" Staged Images "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Staged images
re-invented
rather than
inherited

as distant
descendants
of the far-
less-skeptical

commencing next
taken out-of-context
post adolescence

while blowing kisses
back in a fanfare
vicariously shared

like eye-candy
with a coal-
eyed stare...

"Dashing Towards Laughter"...

" Dashing Towards Laughter "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Dashing towards laughter
years after a sad past
post tongue lashings
showing off moxie
in stand-up comedy
cloaking vulnerability
through a tangle
of overhead flips
arms raised in victory
reminiscent of plot twists
only remotely convincing...

"Quirks and All"...

" Quirks and All "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Quirks and all
whooping and roaring
hooping and hollering
during curtain calls
for impromptu
girls next door

being likened
to theme songs
anonymously performed
as warnings
for less-than-perfect recall

encompassed floor to ceiling
while kicking
into sauntering swing

ensnared on a slanted
playing field
of hopeless entreaty

embodying whispery
hyperclarity
like scavenged malleability

puckishly plummy
unbecomingly blunt
as was the custom...

"Both Proud and Deeply Anxious"...

"Both
Proud
and Deeply
Anxious"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Both proud
and deeply
anxious

giving way
to a memory
play

snowflakes
drifting
lazily

post dated
in the converted
basements
of shuttered
neighborhoods
smiles away

profuse
sweating
unexplained

while staking
claims
to the well
educated

fickle
and
strange

beginning
to gape

as estranged
ghosts hang

over
ectoplasmic
change...

"After the Fallout"...

" After the Fallout "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

After the fallout
going all out and all in
to the warm 'n' fuzzy
with a droll delivery

illicitly herein
like multiple ambitions
shaping up quickly
as prankster's activity

for up-and-coming celebs
susceptible to hissy fits
when put at risk
to online virality
being described wryly

mired in highly swipe-able-
late-night satire precariously
landing on Instagram
Snapchat and Flipflamf...

"A Mixture of Coincidence"...

" A Mixture of Coincidence "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A mixture of coincidence
as a serendipitous
sweet-voiced matrix
likened to high-pitched trills
plus purring "chrrups"
short sharp "chiks"

heavily spotted underparts
darker upper parts
becoming paler in winter
bills dropping at the tip
Great Knots Little Stints
low-note whistles
Atlantic Pacific...

"At Great Distances"...

" At Great Distances "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

At great distances
wingbeats
slow and deep

series of loud
clear whistles
wings held
in an arched position
suddenly plunging
preying on fish

seacoasts
lakes and rivers
waterside trees weeping
lanceolate leaves
toothed grayish
green beneath

cylindrical catkins
males yellow
females green...

"Cool Fluid Watery Coursings"...

" Cool Fluid Watery Coursings "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Cool fluid watery coursings
drip-filled fissures compressed high-temperature minerals

relatively thin rock splitting
changing its hue from blue
to pink mineralogical varieties

trapped bubbles cold granite
escaping from cracks
and gashes

contracting cavities
crystalline crevices
meriting attention

intersecting sets
embedded
gemmy fragments...

"Collaborative Mash-Ups"...

" Collaborative Mash-Ups "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Collaborative
mash-ups
as souped-up
tumult

originating
from dozens
of cultures

more worthy
than oneness
minus its
comeuppance

while running
rough shod
over posthumously
lop-sided pulp

hung up
in quintessential
gradients of over-
heated color
gone bust

functionally structural
bulbously flowing
snagging one another
post puncturing

becoming caught up
by rare offerings
snapped up eagerly...

"Natural Dyes"...

" Natural Dyes "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Natural dyes
leaves flowers
crushed seeds
aroma therapy

pleasing
dappled shade
alternate
bipinnate

creamy fragrant
prominent
primary veins
heart-shaped bases

rounded with age
enlightenment
meditation...

"A Big Blonde in Culottes"...

" A Big Blonde in Culottes "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A big blonde in culottes
glaring through pairs
of high-powered binoculars
while bird watching
over salt ponds

eyes shaded
by a palm-frond
hat tramping
through gnarled
mangrove roots

tending to wrecked
schooners
as restoration
movements
all in tribute
to woodland cooers

perched
on triangles
of tin roofs
topping off planks
of tongue-in-groove
bedazzled by parrot blue...

"Raw and Unscripted"...

" Raw and Unscripted "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Raw and unscripted
often deadly still
after long absences
in chin straps
and shoulder pads

well within
striking distance
of the data-driven
emitting pings

transmitting signals
outstripping geometry
via beacons
of global positioning

tracking dime and nickel
packages masterfully
taking snaps going all out
TOUCH DOWN...

"Secondhand Splendor"...

" Secondhand Splendor "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Secondhand
splendor
being taken
in irrepressible
directions
toward potentially
empty nests

setting records
on leafy decks
for the well-
intentioned-
flea-market
distressed

becoming
all but necessary
quaint and laced
as highly sustainable
reclamations in rotation

getting dressed
up for pajama day
sporting a red panda face
on wobbly legs
due entirely to climate change...

"Steadily Citified"...

" Steadily Citified "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Steadily citified typified
by shifting and bristling
innumerable millions

scene as statuettes of grizzlies
serving as authority figures
lumbering in from the wilderness

with no particular interest
toward diabolical villains
unfamiliar with guilt

and lacking in sponsorship
for brass mascots
cast off-campus

staring without seeing
yet profoundly timely
and oversized
like thick-hided
indigenous guides...

"Before Mysteriously Reappearing"...

"Before
Mysteriously
Reappearing"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Before mysteriously reappearing
on the other side
of the nearly insurmountable
in deepening quandaries

while long rallying
against the tyranny of tipping
but proving too difficult to quit

spurting new minimums
of inequalities
clipping narrow strips
off sacks of weaponry

getting ready to inflict
serious damage
batter up and make it snappy
in a morality play

climaxing after finishing
one-hundredth
of a second ahead
to modest effect...

"Between Two Tendencies"...

" Between Two Tendencies "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Between two tendencies
civility and foolish beliefs
remote and marshy

becoming tinged
with melancholy
sometimes jarringly
and amusingly popular

being crammed into pockets
of falling barometers
breaking free of boundaries
like cooking minus the dicing

while tidying up within a blur
of uncertainty instinctively
weighing in yet bridling
at being boxed in

donning boxers briefs
or just undies
practically speaking
honing in
on an open mind

reflecting a rising
or downright divining
of a life done in double time...

" Cursive Partnerings "...

" Cursive Partnerings "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Cursive partnerings
in swirling pas de deux
intoxicatingly erotic
motioning tenderly
with virtuosity
and delicacy

enchantingly set apart
by miraculous pauses
within rhythmic intricacies
both luscious and brilliant
exhibited as glow sticks
of quiet stillness
in sculptural positions...

"As a Second Offering"...

" As a Second Offering "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

As a second offering
adorning the normally
odd props and statuary bits

reliably fine good-hearted
yet occasionally cloddish
deflating on the artifice

of fans versus friends
vaguely suggestive
lacking in emphasis

self-conscious concepts
bereft of astonishment
during exquisite spells

likened to the heady
unsulliedly expected
godlike direction

depicted
in plentitude
and revelry
most readily...

"On the Forefront"...

" On the Forefront "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

On the forefront
giving both
high and low fives

one by one
running out
of the tunnel

with predictions
of 3 of 7
plus a pick six

relying on vintage
dittos after falling out
of the lotus position

as fleetingly
as kisses
from signature lips

strutting in string
bikinis and killing it
wickedly minimalist...

"Outdone in Its Flamboyance"...

" Outdone in Its Flamboyance "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Outdone in its flamboyance
illuminated through water
after an overhaul

scattered across the globe
as extensive holdings
for the utopianly precocious

piggybacking
weirdness and boldness
like mastodon molars
of origins unknown

attention grabbing and craggy
yarn-wrapped knickknacks
of balderdash crammed
into the hereafter
unable to make bail...

"Painted Red at Right Center"...

" Painted Red at Right Center "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Painted red at right center
only visible when backlit
as a hint as mashed metal rivets
along with hand-wrought nails
choosing words carefully

supportive of findings
ill-prescribed
pathogens parasites
separate findings
niche varieties
being pestered
by itchy bites

3% of a voracious
purple martin's diet
in need of havens to thrive
like quirks of the mind
personified by green-
veined white butterflies
manically flitting in the wild...

"Ready to Shuck Our Own"

" Ready to Shuck Our Own "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Ready to shuck
our own oysters
scoring big comebacks

risking all meaning while veering
between the seemingly playful
and the colossally apocalyptic

in a luxury retreat
across vertical fields
of suspended greenery

enjoying the fool proof
and the groovy roots
running deeply

via distilleries
of rising juniper whiffs
and spicy licorice

being sipped
on the rocks
and sniffed
in a gimlet...

"An Exit Strategy"...

" An Exit Strategy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

An exit strategy
trying to get out
while being dragged
and getting angry

after asking
for your passport back
from the back of a mansion

as a task force of a lost cause
when all is lost by law
enforcement after hiring officers

at high risk as care givers
under certain conditions
isolated and intermittent

versus coordinated
and continuous
rapidly dispatched
tactically inexact...

"The Un-Doing of a Time Warp"...

" The Un-Doing of a Time Warp "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The un-doing of a time warp
with mischief and more

broken friendships restored
in a tidal wave of song

being bested
at the box office

pierced by disembodied
crimson lips

as a fix
for just about anything

unstinting in color
and versatility

while wiping away
cascading tears

copiously running down purply rouged streaked cheeks

grieving long after failing
to be credited properly

for free-streaming nascent
possibilities taken for granted...

"A Companion Pair"...

" A Companion Pair "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A companion pair
trim dainty veils
over brushed-back hair

unflatteringly taken advantage
rather niggling apparitional
treatment papery and thin

printed renderings
in silhouette left empty
as grief itself to ill effect

whole and set
into imaginary depth
melting ribbons of yellow

fairly irrelevant
like gilt tenderness
as allegorical pearl tiaras
and gold straps
versus clawed feel
and scaly tails...

"Unfit for the Squeamish"...

" Unfit for the Squeamish "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unfit for the squeamish
building to gnashing chords
versus joyful chortles
knee-slapping guffaws
giggle giggle her-haw
chuckles and snorts galore

hewing to new sets of rules
eschewing a wah-wah flute
euthanized after suffering
from newly diagnosed tumors
having made their debut
in a mystery of the universe

attempted to master
unabashed panache
hampered by the brashly
calamitous unmasking
of an unanticipated
personal disaster...

"Teeming Top Tiers"...

" Teeming Top Tiers "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Teeming top tiers
in need of drastic paring
during secretive
preseason schemes

as taking birds of prey
circle in thermals
over besieged gridiron fields

with massive tearing claws
kept at the ready
all in good measure

blasting sturm and drang
during annual iconoclastic
training clashes

screeching fans
in bursting stands
emitting ear-piercing cheers
while loyally bleeding green
over succeeding years...

"Just One of a Set"...

" Just One of a Set "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Just one of a set
of complexities
neither neat nor tidy
like humankind

closely allied
with a thin medium
contrasted by the mean

detached from chronology
by fine-drawn lines
in a blaze of light

likened to defiance
battling the undecided
shaken ten times
then pushed aside

completely mystified
by "die-ins" gone viral
in a duck blind...

"Was There Ever a Picture?"...

" Was There Ever a Picture? "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Was there ever
a picture?
official pomp
life begotten
stiff manners
and costumes

tempered
by spontaneous
arguments
no dalliance
no scintillation
within a trinity
of form
color and light

inscribed
on the right
as a device
of triumph
personified
like still lifes
minus anxiety
constructed
concisely...