" Hard to Fathom "...

" Hard to Fathom "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Hard to fathom
most obviously flashy
in decades past

as famous failures
greatly exaggerated
like vaguely feint
ambivalently palatial
dizzying cabarets

thematically cancanning
undergarments
swirling everywhere

limbs flailing
into major drawbacks
of taut dancers

in staged theatrics
facing backwards
while issuing hosannas

all across
tattered
man-made
maps...