"Likely to Grow"...

" Likely to Grow "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Likely to grow
amid protests
in the program notes

otherwise bold
flashingly showcased
spoofed roles

in rapid vibrato
mostly potently
in the moment

overblown
by hazy boasts
being shrugged-off mostly

while speaking openly
of ferocious devotion
in comfort zones

for preppy hosts
taking hold,
" O Solo Mio! "...

" Hurt in the Ruins "...

" Hurt in the Ruins "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Hurt in the ruins
hiring rising
output lagging
reining in
raining down
venues to parry

limited impacts
of bookkeeping lapses
more likely to attack

out of bounds
sown by doubts
within hours
of loudly
pronounced
managed
practices

as statistical blips
of indistinguishable
"plink-plinkings"
while lobbying
for legacies

run amok
bulked-up insults
slurried
disgruntlement...

" Adopting the Spirit "...

" Adopting the Spirit "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Adopting the spirit
in the wake
of a birth name

balances slated
to departure dates
into dense banks
of uncrowded waves

soaring bi-plane
sandy tree-shaded
rocky point breaks

at odd angles
no easy way
as "staycations"

in two worlds away
of aligned behaviors
via lacy bridal trains...

" A Little Buoyancy "...

" A Little Buoyancy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A little buoyancy
due to minuscule
profusions of fuscia
and chartreuse
in redwood grooves
like Lilliputians

besotted by large Monarchs
mimicking toxic Viceroys
by beating black and orange
powdery wings

precariously otherworldly
pressed toward nearly never-ever agains
as challengingly taxing gambles
wearing painted-on eyeglasses

inspiring brainchild desirings
with double billings being
bowled over while donning bowlers
and laced brogues for bold exponents
of opening tableaus truth be told...

"Nature Teaches Us"...

"Nature Teaches Us"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Nature teaches us
unequivocally
via rampant
vacant buildings
over filled
with simple
country wisdom
for city slickers

as seen
by exorcists
professing
bleak opinions
for hillbillies
survinig ir-
reconcilabilities

most crucially
overturning
rulings
backed up a-
politically
only recently
by anti-
doping
athletes
used as task-
masters
for untapped
dopple-
gangers

while mani-
pulating
football air
backlashed
by plans
of fairness
for reined-
in green-
house
gases...

"Madly BackPedaling"...

" Madly BackPedaling "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Madly backpedaling
in the snowpack
of long-term
under averages

spanning hair-
raising
caregiving hectares

lurking beneath
panoplies of tree
canopies severely
depleted by de-
foresting

nearing
extinction via
severely endangering
previous centuries

as less storage
and faster runoff
snowshoes no
longer needed

in once-colder regions
for the tiniest
of beings

newly seen
like updated
evolutionary trees

having been left
undiscovered
on the cusps
of momentous
micro-clumps

coming in
from under
once-sump-
tuous be-
humbled
river mud...

"Repeating, 'That Is' in the Ruins"...

"Recreating, 'That Is', in the Ruins"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

"Recreating, 'That Is", in the Ruins"
of fleet fingers and luxurious streams
post putting lurs to lips
of the long-forgotten forays into fiords

requiring circular breathing
like aural alchemy being far exceeded
by the bit-jarring goings on
of the not-so-far ensembles

maintained hypnotically
swaying 'n' nodding
to full-bodied-bleep-worthy teeth
slangily singing, "My Country 'Tis of Thee"
while grippingly "oohing" and "aahing"...

" New Takes"...

" New Takes "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

New takes beginning to break
upon gains of the sometimes misplaced
seemingly detangled interplays
over the ages in unexpected ways

being left to settle generically
as unprecedented further developments
all deemed, "Out of the question!"
then contentiously rejected

yet relatively harmless
as sticky webs
from unpredictably messy
supposed blessings

gone off message
like loosened suspenders
for rednecks
getting heckled
by growling bellies...

" A Living Thing "...

" A Living Thing "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A living thing
crowing
in the wings

based lossely
on the unusual
just to name a few

no sooner ebullient
and intractably sad
in flight patterns
of economic status
in great detail

ideally cast
as backward progress
of the actual
in familial tales
of refractive failures
being depicted as jazz

yet feeling drab
all at frail randomness
feeling like hostages
of chance at long last...

"Pointed If Not Sentimental"...

"Pointed If Not Sentimental"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Pointed if not sentimental
at first testy exuding spunkiness
while glaring across desks
of oozing weariness

after barely
beating an eyelash
having tried and failed
caught unawares

poorly financed
left flailing
underhandedly
and matter-of-factly

bantering in shorthand
being held to higher standards
via back alleys of collateral damage
as sight gags with and without contrast...

"Pratfalls and Pitfalls"...

" Pratfalls and Pitfalls "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Pratfalls and pitfalls
stymying novelties
trampling creativity

hermetically sealed
emblematically snarling
cacophonies

like stand-up comedies
of densely avante-garde
earned autonomies

yet inextricably less likely
as slow-tempoed oldies
being unhurriedly seized
by grief jealousy and fear

supernaturally revealed
effortlessly rhythmic
intransigence

voices cast
mysteriously absent
while manically
reaching back
scrambling...

"Before or After"...

" Before or After "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Before or after
a modernist lair
unevenly cast

coaxing hair-raising scares
via dashboard cams
of action fare

likened to boilerplate fams
well beyond compare
but nearly derailed
by pregnsnt glances

through never-the-less
self-correcting lenses
of unstated resentments
all depending on density
however well-intended

while making perfect sense
out of sequence
yet at-the-ready
with tense expletives...

"The Latest Unrest"...

"The Latest Unrest"...

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The latest unrest
on the edges
of lethal threats
as unconfessed
developments
underrepresented
but not necessarily
undetectable
at the center of upsets

like life expectancies
painstakingly blurry
blisteringly unclear
from bully pulpits
where the poor live
minute by minute

jaw droppingly
hand-picked
crucial differences
as seen from middle distances
with nothing much amiss
in the gathering darkness
of the not-remotely happy

back stories
flashing back
unhampered
robbed of detail
via golly-gosh-darn
responses to stark problems...

" Being In Charge "...

" Being In Charge "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Being in charge
gleefully silly
and frothy

upliftingly twitchy
ladder up
loaded with yammers
plus yuck-yucks

pleasurably enough
defining what's funny
or just numbing

in love or in lust
both in tone
and in subject

country by country
outlets of studies
like cowboy cultures
of giddy-ups

in halls of induction
all revved up
another rung
of all-of-a-sudden
seduction

all about money a comin'
fully buttressed
by big sums of oblivious
substructures

seemingly impetuous
yet intimate enough
gone under cover

intensely pungent
by the buckets and such
as makeshift funnies...

" Among Mediums "...

" Among Mediums "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Among mediums
splitting the difference
toward prisms of precision

yet primarily limited
to blinkering inestimability
being shrouded in secrecy

while plucking at absurdity
like dried pre-packaged seeds
left barely breathing
in meaningless misdemeanors

handled informally
then loosened and scattered
toward optical bafflement

squarishly freestanding
applied with a stamp
of grandeur as sleight-of-hand
on a benign white canvas...

"In Its Many Guises"...

"In Its Many Guises"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

In its many guises
most striking
like its library
and archives
gone under
revival

long secreted
and a little
too completely
as seen
on life-sized
screens

being blown
up dugitally
from
photography

festooned
with graffiti
in strict
chronology

almost
threateningly
year-by-year

ripplingly
cantilevered
splitting
idiosyncratically

undulatingly black
sitting-pat formal clarity
exclusively narrowing

well plastered
multifaceted
flamboyantly vast

unquestionally
abstract
all but absent...

" Tumultuous Eras "...

" Tumultuous Eras "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Tumultuous eras
surreally color-free
secret societies

seemingly opening
galumphingly resealed
wizened communities
of inaccessibility

devoted entirely
to losing steam
indistinguishingly
halfheartedly
and monochromatically

becoming totally ungrounded
non-naturalistic palettes
being unexamined as "perhapses"

swathed in BubbleWrap banners
seen at random
like conventional practices
coming up barren...

"Prevention Called into Question"...

" Prevention Called into Question "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Prevention called into question
as yelps for help being neglected

unkempt regarding terror upended
by anger over delegates if and when

like convoluted processes
of volatile elements

inequality and fairness via chairmen
overwhelmingly being benched

only to rise up again
likened to suspects

all gone under cover
into slush funds for smugglers

shaken up
by sharp short stories

having to once
make it snappy repleted by anguish...

"Materializing from Nowhere"...

"Materializing from Nowhere"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Materializing from nowhere
official at-bats all out of habit
from the enigmatic talent
of getting nasty and bearing down

then chuckling about
being thrust from couches
like rookies with clout

settling down
having been found out
needing to chow down
yet rarely getting rattled

becoming unflappable
when feeling enamoured
as a really good manager

rallying past grand nationals
recalibrated as rather
backhanded lengthy bans
passively having
to wait to see what happens...

" Lofty, Definitely Not Cozy "...

" Lofty, Definitely Not Cozy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Lofty, definitely not cozy
bouncing up and down
in unassuming lounges
of the outlandishly jowl-
deep contagiously sweet

up-dated global all aloneness
having gone solo with the loco
being reached only by boat

all while on the dole
by skipping the toaster
and getting much much closer

via loyalty programs of olde
pre-supposedly meant only
for the locals truth be told...

" Eating Takeout "...

" Eating Takeout "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Eating takeout
sitting cross-legged
passing along résumés

making points of saying
something in commemoration
of prior campaigns

having remained unchanged
due to affiliations
with previous claims
regarding climate change

becoming way more complicated
playing footsies under tables
relentlessly turning pages
of adoration for donor-based
preferred candidates
as "B"Man v "S"Man for example

while brandishing right-handed
shears seated in metal chairs
going for laughs
coming out of nowhere...

" The Geekier Outposts "...

" The Geekier Outposts "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The geekier outposts
of prolific gypsies
revamping cracked jokes
during make-out
burps for nerds

while announcing
the nomadic return
of systematic nannies
under expansion

on multi platforms
just channeled
as entertainment brands
along murky trails

lurking with uncertainties
of right or wrong words
like snapshots
of the especially nasty
illicit love affairs

lacking in compassion
during de-tangling
cutting rasping
post rambling

after looking back
with detachment
on demand...

"With the Exception"...

" With the Exception "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

With the exception
as yet back-peddled

during a comeback of cameos
out loud for hours over and out

quietly and otherwise
like idolized zany varieties

strobe lighted over time
subtleties maximized

under masterminds
of heart-rending lines

fiercely brought back to life
by plucky string cycles of vivid reminders

startlingly wild-eyed
flurrying unharmonic melancholy

rippling harp filigrees
echoey billowy buoys

expressively excessively
sudsy brewskis...

"Examples of Expanses"...

" Examples of Expanses "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Examples of expanses
as miasmas of vapid laughter
straggling torches in hand

now masters left to fans
having to ask
while taking drags from flasks

with single cameras flashing
into smatterings
of chit-chattering sparrows

answering back
by nesting in the trappings
of spent grasses
fledgling flights fantastic...

" Such As They Are"...

" Such As They Are "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Such as they are
tethered to senses
of mid-adventure
plus magnanimous
rushes of adrenaline

in dugouts and clubhouses
while manically racing toward home
juices flowing doting over
family photos of olde

seemingly easy going
with little differences
impingingly tight-lipped-
clench-fisted confidence

versus cockiness
seen stewing a lot
over illusory
landing spots

spinning as tops
of chilling prospects
likened to hard copies
full of wants

as stored in pad-locked
foot lockers as impromptu
breachings much further on
of neighborhood watches...

"Little That's Off Limits"...

" Little That's Off Limits "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Little that's off limits
hoverboards in the kitchen
helpful bells and whistles

digital tiny rips
plus smudged fingerprints
unconditionally familial

like unintended gifts
with flowers affixed
that is our children

since antiquity
well into perpetuity
rare motifs

as societies
evoking revelries
unencrypted imagery

greatest reaches
swelling at peaks
co-existing magnetic fields

back stroking
forward rolls
while panning for gold...

" Going Down the Gangplank "...

" Going Down the Gangplank "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Going down
the gangplank
like a prank
being complicated
by knick names
for wannabe-big-wig
leaders of the packs
of toothed whales

winding rings
around castles
used as touch pads
for-this-and-for-that
in run-down taverns

doubley disadvantaged
coldly pampered
curiously static quick patters

in hand-me-down flukey tales
barely managing shatteringly mad
daily battlefield examples
lacking in glamour...

" In Caricaturish Terms "...

" In Caricaturish Terms "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

In caricaturish terms
those words
gone a whirling

falling limply
diagonally unfolding
in rows like crescendos

elegantly rolling
toward unforetold
unfurling fiascos
of the narrowly focused

being experienced
as shootings before tea
and mortars at dawn

while donning tight uniforms
yet getting foreshortened
by extreme caution

carved out of the long-
and-the-short of it all
along arbitrary borders
of obligatory sing-songy stories...

"Aimed at Patients"...

" Aimed at Patients "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Aimed at patients
nuclear proliferations
undergoing radiation

getting zapped
left having
zippo

that is little or no
perky clinicians
offering gifts

being depicted
as Pan
and Dionysus

in obscure writings
surviving overtime
then entering into decline

entirely undefinable
yet highly recognized
by appearing on textiles

as emblems of wine
and the good life
wool dyed...

"Carrying Off the New-Fangled"...

" Carrying Off the New-Fangled "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Carrying off the new-fangled
sometimes heart-breaking

taking place in a crammed studio space
for the un-named world's favorites

as yet to be claimed
by the often-mistaken

while abiding in unlikely places
like literary agents for the deranged

becoming bandwagon based
splintery spokes rotating

"na-na-na-na-na
ya can't catch me!"

"na-na-na-na na-na-na-na
hey-hey-hey good-bye"

"Away with you!
That's so nice of you!"

"Yoo-Hoo! Who do
that voo-do that you do so well?"

in slender velvety leather
as riveting spectacles

in losses of innocence
by overstaying welcomes...

" Willfully Chaotic "...

" Willfully Chaotic "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Willfully chaotic
pink and green blossoms
pulled off with aplomb

against cheetah-spotted backdrops
while sorting socks
and seeming to argue for going gaga
at the peril of technology

under armor in ardent sagas
in floods of nostalgia
grown-up now--believe it or not

worn to The Oscars
tramped-on carpets
fearful hearts

donning caged corsets
and harnessed bras
from the arsenals
of the boldly androgynous
all-in-one projects...

" Remaining Elusive "...

" Remaining Elusive "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Remaining elusive
barely lifting pinkies
consoling sorries

hard-partying
postpartum ick
a mile a minute
into a crypt

not nearly
over green tea
unbuttoned rakishly

being kept in play
off stage
bent at the waist

awkward anxious
reddening faces
riding the day...

" Stretched Thinly "...

" Stretched Thinly "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Stretched thinly
largely handwritten
raising risks
overly ambitious
exposing the hidden

picking nits
nearly invisible
eliciting
flinching and tics
little-by-little

visual gambits
moving laterally
minute-by-minute

all-at-once thrilling
yet perfectly still
and unscripted
slight grins...

" Broad Swaths of Sky "...

" Broad Swaths of Sky "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Broad swaths of sky
fledgling verifiers
casually philosophizing
in riddles and rhymes

shrewdly well organized
wearing designer tuxedos
beneath scuba suits
while infiltrating
hallucinatory groups
with dubious
cults' ritual uses
by signal-boosting
ping-ponging
copyright issues

inclining to moralize
banishing piety
dropping by
like high jinx

but flowing too freely
and rather informally
"WHACKED!"
so to speak
as return addressees
stepping in pencil jeans...

" All Kinds of Mystical "...

" All Kinds of Mystical "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

All kinds of mystical
being likened
to flat wide
boulevard strips
along raging rivers
of intuitive vision
in transition

partly hidden
lightning-bolt prints
starkly different
but both warm and cheeky
ecstatic re-configurings

as if huddling
while flambouyantly slam dunking
in all matters of production
banding rapt neon glam
via re-enactments of the lay of the land...

" Frenetic Footwork "...

" Frenetic Footwork "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Frenetic footwork
having mastered
stampeding camaraderies
like precisely buzzing
onomatopoeias

while framing conceits
of the shaggily supernatural
creaturely wildebeests
as swarm mentalities

simulating foraging
increasing soil fertility
as snaking gamey delicacies
being given macabre top billing
hissing and slithering
down deepening clearings...

" Through the Grazed Haze "...

" Through the Grazed Haze "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Through the grazed haze
embravened crusaders
for regeneration
well purveyed

yet getting completely bent
out of shape
by acoustical and gravitational
space

scatting and chanting
in mammoth contrast
to a somewhat-soppy plot

being classically polished
in disheartening starts
by behemoth beboppers

having been paired
with foot-stomping
fleets of artists

floor skimming
sticking splits
to elephantine
cacophanies...

" Unfortunate Examples "...

" Unfortunate Examples "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unfortunate examples
effectively curtailed
by lightning-fast-
jaggedly-upscale-
time-honored trappings
of distraction

barely masked
finally being asked
as fragments
torches in hand
goggles aglare

calling it, "passion"
subtitled, "jazzy"
the flight fantastic
with trampoline action
for all-encompassing
extended families

vines straggling austere formats
one-time champions en masse...

" A Kind of Openness "...

" A Kind of Openness "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A kind of openness
within starkness
making sense
of all its members
in character perspectives

seemingly magically
straight-jacketed
jerrymandering
gathering the drab
unwitting catalysts

as hearts shatter
and social fabrics tear
spiritually challenged
witches are back

like firebrands free at last
while tipping the scales
with gritty reactions
of the increasingly frail

with undertones of sadness
heirs and masters
targets at hand
well-mannered ragtag...

" Now on View "...

" Now on View "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Now on view
present by proxy
like light and robots
pinked and polka-dotted
as promisingly as possible

yet still oddly melancholic
like dark postcards
on stark mortared blocks
stacked hollowed columns
of cardboard boxes
and hand-blown glass
with bullwhip tails

startlingly radical brands
of master craftsmen's signed chairs
with autobiographical details
having undergone unsightly repairs
by dazzlingly international casts
from the freshest and the scariest

spindly half-bare branches
of the timelessly tragic
no hints of shabby chic's
scalding transparency

typifying doomed families
prostrate in straight-backed
caned chairs uncannily
gone mad in moral stances
replete with malevolent stares...

"Largely Unchecked"...

" Largely Unchecked "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Largely unchecked
now-notorious insects
slipping sanction nets
with much much smaller heads
as agendas for geneticists' quests

viably striving to assemble
alledged repellents in the process
of misdirected vector trajectories

miles ahead like undefied
soaring lines no longer sitting idly by
having survived conniving
revivals of rivals
in multiple unsteady climbs

being denied oversight
at high-tech levels
yet given more buttons to press...

"Ready For More"...

" Ready For More "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Ready for more
scoffing at "Because!"
scornfully
as "Not Exactly!"

with economies
repeatedly thwarted,
" Never More! "
in the center of it all

arm jabs
crotch jabs
remastering
the soon-after
jarring scrappiness

in appeals
all for the picking
of a floral print
still nippy

donning
chunky cardigans
with good reason

salvaging jeans
resurrecting boxy
color blocks

while on the rocks
of the nearly impossible
not particularly easily either

as both good-and-bad things
hit the racks
targetted and branded
ad campaigns of intense scarcity...