"Seeming To Be Receding"...

" Seeming To Be Receding "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Seeming to be receding
into rattlesnake pink
sandy slitherings
tails rattling

along information highways
kept really foggy
while waiting over decades
during openly negotiated vagaries
fleeing brutally across tough streets

attending fancies
softening then hardening
often seen sparring
mercurially made
achingly clear

listening blankly
dueling and dancing
unwillingly born
of hard experience
throbbing beats
gone viral
a bit more dark...

"Everyone -- Almost Everyone"...

" Everyone -- Almost Everyone "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Everyone -- almost everyone
numbered in the few dozens
like teensy-weensy contingencies
of pretty-bleak-jump-started friskies

rappelling down buildings
laughing or weeping
while at least desiring
incisive themes

re-writing histories
put off by enfeebling
dilly-dallying
raising difficulties

looking frumpy
getting tuned-up
decreasingly
seen at-the-ready...

"Derived Partly"...

" Derived Partly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Derived partly
by almost
unrecognizable
signature styles
headlining
thoughtful tidings

while being
squeezed for time
by backsliders
of the by-and-by
gone sideways

oft-re-incarnated
off stage
unsure of the purity
of space

like mutating
gold face paints
both cherished
and endangered

but as yet unnamed
staking erroneous claims
to unapproachable olden days...

"Charged With Paradoxes"...

" Charged With Paradoxes "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Charged with paradoxes
stumbled upon
significantly darkening
post-post Pop

romantic swans
so so popular
ancient meeting modern
letting ids out of bottles

ambition and conscience
opitimism and kitsch
closely knit underpinnings
no frills

foods in plastics
bedazzling
unawarenesses

homelands laments
spaces overhead
no comment...

" Good Reminders "...

" Good Reminders "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Good reminders
thick slices
lusting for life
yet kept
all in the mind

highly seeded
reviewed harshly
since infancy
with fresh urgency

while harping
on past promises
from flipped scorecards
in schoolyards

playing the odds
while walking in socks
of the unorthodox

like veteran comics
using religion
as highly popular art

straight out
of the bottle
for six-penny operas...

"Begun in a Burst"...

" Begun in a Burst "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Begun in a burst
bringing scrutiny
proving to be
tentatively agreed

sifting through centuries
in shirt sleeves
often murky
third degrees

remaining big
as singers'
metaphors
and conceits

unsurprisingly
streaming live
prime time
stand by...

" Set in Motion "...

" Set in Motion "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Set in motion hand-rolled
treasure troves
of renowned tobacco

lids left open
spicy aromas
stogies evoking
smokers' souls

seasonal approaches
oranges yellows
rung doorbells
plush bedding

sparking envy
bright prospects
medium bodied
spinning yarns

paying homage
curing barns
vintage cars

lemons and garlic
street-side
flavor bombs

scattered parsley
creamy pasta
over the top

salmon and garnish
culinary arts
on our radar...

" Sigh No More "...

" Sigh No More "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Sigh no more
less siloed
like skinny ties
tossed aside

up one flight
etched lightly
as a child

What is it like?
while wandering
unsupervised
way out of line

recognized
over time
music-hall style

larger than life
blurring lines
being outlined
in overdrive
all on the sunny side...

" Barely Graspable "...

" Barely Graspable "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Barely graspable
outrageously magical
hard to keep on track

as war ravaged
new-fangled
bafflement

pushing past
bound to fail
like austere details

for anthropomorphically
uncanny stripped bare
hardware on demand

contrasting
like budding branches
of pure enchantment

tall and tawdry
defined and deployed
abidingly borderless

classical quarters
passing on
to the actual

significance of facts
reddish tonalities
agreeing to marry...

" Unadorned "...

" Unadorned "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unadorned
by punctuation
high expectations
predominating

as samba-esque
confections
in present tenses
of chord progressions

without question
musical gestures
as bookended
spectacles

frustratingly vague
to anarchic raves
wacky new waves
haphazardly created

while landing
somewhere
hilarious

like beatnik ranks
of graying hair
in rural landscapes

still wearing
space-creature masks
with semi-autobiographical swagger...

" Subversive Allure "...

" Subversive Allure "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Subversive allure
having to squirm
flaunting the curves
of the less-worthy-
hyper-sure
longer versions
of circularly
controversial rebirths
like mostly imperious
golden birds
of reassuredness

when multiple
subpoenas are seen
as judicial inquiries
at prestigious universities
profiting illegally
via nationwide sweeps
of advocacy

serupticiously practicing
parallels to tobacco
while playing
down the dangers
as stated in rolling papers
like diagnosed cases
calculatingly unrated...

" Front-Row Fixtures "...

" Front-Row Fixtures "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Front-row fixtures
marshmallow
roasting sticks
broad fingers
by far the biggest
angling for pictures

it's the little things
scrunched down
to the wrinkles
of shared experience
above memorabilia
vintage floor-to-ceiling

supple nubuck classic trunks
loving the flutteringly fuzzy
glitter-encrusted grandmother
almost comically young
catching up to growing numbers
of original punkers all in good fun
comfortably numb at random...

" One More Time "...

" One More Time "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

One more time
ending in the tie
of a daily grind
like charged particles
coloring the sky

tweeted in time-lapse series
as menacingly high northern lights
highly refined like night lights
at numbing velocities
that can't stop thinking

and no ignoring ambiguities
while cutting through clearings
of vulnerabilities maniacally lined
in diaries scribbling left to right
purposefully improvised
as seriously fine traumatic spikes...

" Really Is "...

" Really Is "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Really is lights dimming
reciting the familiar
may have beens

narrowly missed
befittingly slick
fact and fiction

subtlety and ferocity
neither flashy nor brassy
inequality collapsing

both real and fanciful
comically vast
so fretful so spare

anxiety despair
stand-up campfire tales
long-lasting series' pairings

seriously dampened
mysteriously wailing
along thoroughfared rural areas...

" Far From Likely "...

" Far From Likely "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Far more likely
the first of its kind
reciting familiar lines
during a riot
made bite-sized
by writers

well worth the fight
with uninvited
vivid reminders
" It's Alive! "

holes in our lives
like old-style
zests of lime
squeezed slowly
overnight
into lemon-lime

multi-tined-
high-quality
tinned kinds
just in time

high-five-
fine wines
closed eyes
confusion
and delight

magically
bullet-like
pies in the sky
at brisk clips
of high risk

bird-call trills
artfully hinted
by bowed violins...

" Standing a Chance "...

" Standing a Chance "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Standing a chance
still within spitting distance
akin to full-fledged
cultural positions
with Old World charisma
for adults plus children

infinitesimally knock-kneed
obsessive simplicity
torqued by grief
and evolutionary links

two sets of wings
series of leaps
inserting puzzle pieces
on giant wingspanned screens

effortlessly
topping off canopies
with beaks
rather than teeth...

" More Than Tweaked"...

" More Than Tweaked "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

More than tweaked
unnerving gear
struggling to keep
senses of normality

shuddering and cracking
never stopping to think
turning up the heat
in novels of intrigue

upending plausibility
mellowing with burgundy
lemony shots of spring

grass-fed beef
toying with ideas
tongue in cheek...

"Herbs of Old"...

" Herbs of Old "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Herbs of old
bright yellow
pods below
deeply lobed

tiny green
bead like
pinkish white
peas and beans

woody species
compound leaves
attracting bees

birdweed
bittersweet
trumpet creeper...

"Unusually Varied Fare"...

"Unusually Varied Fare"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unusually varied fare
mainly through the brasses
cheek by jowl with gravitas
as jaunty jazzy epiphanies
way down by the river
with shared frailties

while grasping
for bronze handles
and railings
and thwacking
mallets of tangible
ambience

synthesized
by 3-D robotry
mimicking
radioactivity
from colossal
tsunamis

at once precarious
and routine
veneers of stability

masking
the grueling
and dangerous
gerrymandering
of pivotal neighbors

like gangsters'
hazardous
day-to-days
now on display...

"Alien Biennials"...

" Alien Biennials "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Alien biennials
dormant in the soil
invading lawns

multiflora
fronds broad
yellow in fall

prairie warblers
huckleberry dwarfs
frequenting under stories

locust borers
goldenrod
in autumn

long-horned
aquatic forms
segmented claws

occurring in swarms
beaks short nipple galls
sound organs...

" No Room for Error "...

" No Room for Error "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

No room for error
growing prospects
signaling suspension

deflategate questions
appearing unsympathetic
cheerio then

exclusively for white men
communal dimensions
mock weddings

racial tensions
sharks 'n' jets
contemporary
bookends

in a certain sense
with less
of a presence

like undocumented
beekeeping
insects buzzing
into infrared...

"The Growing Season"...

"The Growing Season"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The growing season
slopes and plateaus
solitary sociable

mounds and burrows
spotted torsos
stripes over shoulders

web toed
contrasting
yellow

red-
billed
oxpeckers

ashy
and wattled
starlings

white wing bars
eucalyptus
forests

loud liquid
"phee-ooo
pheea-pheooo"...