"Run for the Shadows"...

" Run for the Shadows "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Run
for the
shadows

as a kind
of abstract
rather bad
fanged dragon
beneath
a black mask

wings writhing
in the air
on the rigorous
small scale
of pieties

like high art
versus self-
deluding
low lifes

gray
unfired clay
new moons
in place...