“ Raw “...

” Raw “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Raw
experiences
sputtering
sensitivities
seemingly
troubling
final seasons

meaning nothing
teasing badgering
hitting high C’s
inexplicably
triple billed

not given
to self-scrutiny
speaking dryly
not worth dying

busily
embellishing
getting better
post-depression
self-expression
crushed velvet

strings of ponies
high-wire feats
unequivocally
thrilling intimacies
of single rings
witnessing circling
fads and fancies...

Yielding...

” Yielding “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Yielding to outcries
in fear of reprisal
with campaigns at stake
to advisor ties
for middle-class aspirers

trying to embrace the polarized
while testing glaring stage lights
deemed undecidedly precise
like divisive higher prices
combined with strife
via news sites and hefty fines
for “yes” men quick with their pens

the biggest yet greeted with protests
declared as “nonsense—without merit”
and “totally out of the question”
by never-ending distressors
suppressing their successors

being thrust up against
predatory presidents
supposedly motioning
steady-as-she-goes
reform proposals
left out-in-the-cold
having gotten culled
as un-vulgar misnomers...