" Blunt Pleas "...

" Blunt Pleas "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Blunt pleas grips
tightening last ditches
as needed for passage

on the brink
deeply threatening
escalating invectives

precluding diplomacy
taking a knee
becoming clear

albeit re-routing
instant messaging
gale-blasted ramifications

poorly handled emails
major embarrassments
reigning failures

rolled-back actions
media trolls taking tolls
fleeting unity

arms linked
addressed
on twitter
tweeting
athletes
league
swagger

turning points
for travelers
preying mantises

planted allium
streams of lavender
tulip parrots

vigorous lace-caps
wonderfully aromatic
globe masters...

" No Longer "...

" No Longer "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

No longer the same
as an absurdist express train
operating at odds with a riotous spa

deeply massaged manic fondnesses
for driving high-end luxury cars
all along lauded autobahns

of extremely funny
self-engineered comedies
gradually losing grips

left dangling after
gulping down rounds
of well-poured drinks

seen simultaneously taking selfies
on flooded streets of sprayed confetti
exclaiming, "Do mine eyes deceive me ?!"...

" Proposing "...

" Proposing "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Proposing bohemian
romantic streaks
as big as thematic
secret experiences
once deemed, "delirious"
and inordinately "weird"

tabulating tantalizingly
flashy eccentricities
seeringly seen
by curatorial teams
aided by psychotropic
materials sipping
well-steeped green teas

smiling symbiotically
ear-to-ear upon being
given equal billing
but still attesting
to bereft intensities

heads cocking slightly
sideways differing minds
misrepresented over time
while lagging far behind
like unidentified high
societies hellishly described
derided and left untitled besides...

" Stalking "...

" Stalking "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Stalking
imploring
approaching
storms
as swarming
apocalyptic thoughts
but, we could be wrong

peering over borders
mortared walls
hurricane forces
unsealed reports
of the long
and the short of it
falling short
short falls
exhaustion

reaping rewards
for financial offers
of violent contact sports
causing scoreboard discord
told to mandatorily flee north
as a foil to getting to the breaking point
calling, "All shore that's going ashore!"

yet feeling worn to the core
exclaiming, "What took so long?!"
cause no one really fails anymore
they're just, "out performed"
during extorted encores
having once been ruled,
" Out of Order! "...

" Captivating "...

" Captivating "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Captivating travel destinations
no need for a plane
soaring standing ovations

taking vacations
via wild imaginations
all in a good way

faces brightly painted
little grey cells reigning
smashing and banging

rattling cages
shuttering hurricanes
remedies in the making

beginning at daybreak
playing chambers
highly anticipated
molten glazes
minus reservation...

" Crossing "...

" Crossing "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Crossing borders
as dark horses
gone beyond calamari
while dunking croissants
in classically called,
"Mom-and-Pop" shops

deemed, "gluten-free"
and "low-carb"
as, "no problem"
under modern monikers

all the way
from blueberry farms
complementing
full-bodied-
raw-milk cheeses
seen an small batches
of divinities

vibrantly deep
mouth-watering
salty and savory


blow torching
breakfast bacon
at the table
unveiling
the latest tastes
after years of aging

carrying crush-proof camel cases
squeeze click change
resulting in low birth weight
well past the expiration date
sold to minors under the table...

" And Yet"...

" And Yet "

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

And yet timeworn events
tangled stems wrenching overhead
terrestrial tremblings surging seas
still to tease stearing over former years
beneath roof trees fitful chimneys

scarcely heeded howling wakened hounds
rain drops ploughing harrowing stick-built houses
scouring caverns underground
clouds and hills around less loud
more profound willow boughs
crowding from our marred arms outwards...

" Re-Testing "...

" Re-Testing "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Re-testing
what was once
tolerated
by re-booted artists

fueling the populace
as hand-held cosmopolitan
"smartness" involving
monumental bodies
all known to us, "By Heart"

paying homage
to block-by-block
house-party pop-ups
sweeping across arcs
of pavilion pillboxes

being sonically carpet bombed
like conjurings
of polymorphous blossoms

as staggeringly
raucous virtuosity
like hand-cranked
secret societies
sworn to silence

appealing
to our curiosities
via heightening
mysteries

bulked-up
enormity
becoming
gorgeously
shocking
and un-
wittingly
eerie

garnering
insatiable
needs
faltering
imperfectly

spilling
onto fresh
bed-sheeted
self-esteems...

" Unusual Promise "...

" Unusual Promise "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Unusual promise
spare parts
no comment
not-for-profit shock
waves acquired stakes
at minimum wage
gone beyond
basic training
via hidden data
while making
equity trades
on blank slates
due to catastrophic
climate change
detonating
nuclear hurricanes
brain-hungry
anti-strange
breakaways
resistance training
voice-activated
turn-by-turn
navigation
laid to waste...

" Cardboard Cutouts "...

" Cardboard Cutouts "

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Cardboard cutouts
concrete materiality
repurposed aggregates
clamshell plastics
interactive fiberglasses

extraterrestrial gymnastics
leapfrogging trampolines
graphite-only pieces
amorphous fungibility

shimmering silver squiggles
multicolored strings
drawings' gray spaces
firm renunciation
scant paintings

racks of negligees
stop-motion animation
sandpaper cheese grater
radiated landscapes
biodegration
peeling wallpaper...

" Ever-Increasing "...

" Ever-Increasing "

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Ever-increasing momentum
at molecular levels currently trending
traced developments basic concepts
as energy-storing processes

separately and distinctly
universally scholarly
likenesses perceived
while grouping living things
into members of genuses

creating all-encompassing theories
strengthened with frequency
found to be reinforcing
resisting extinction
hardest to extinguish

at about the same mean
playing slot machines
being called, "cramming"
graphed as, "scalloping"
probabilities of doing
your own thing

preferred activities
becoming particularly rich
in idioms: " ivory towers
itchy palms hitting the jackpot
jamming tomorrow"...

" Pain-Staking "...

" Pain-Staking "

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Pain-staking recovery
fresh out of security
beginning to recede
then dropping torrentially
onto tree-lined streets
like uncommon experiences
as gifts of possibility
driven by storm-shifting winds
while clinging to the margins
of brinkmanship loosening grips
unsolicited drifting
transcending subdivisions
blue-lipped novelists
gone out of print
with bookshelf fixtures
and party-platter tidbits
becoming menaced
by 100 year floods
across unofficial cultures
resurfacing adults
over months and months
hating to push buttons
not exactly subtle
crushing skulls eyes sewn shut
no matter what getting busted
shrouded in secrecy
different from everything
airing weekly churning worlds
misinterpreted auteur driven
and ambitious dammits
seen as rifts ever since
becoming pretty grim
quick start shoveling
out of touch
so called sprawling
global audiences
equally poignant
too small
unyieldingly formal
debut stories
dirty wars
all according
to enormous fiords
no longer
keeping plenty busy
living amid pillows
ever since
upon going to auction
as silver ice buckets
filled up by the humbled
not giving up
swooshes and drips
seeking forgivenesses in acrylics
horizontally slit toothless grins...