" Overgrown "...

" Overgrown "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Overgrown
"hand-fulls"
of poems
in starring rolls
savoring moments
of new salvos
strangers
with accents
gone up
the "Ah-mason"
beneath canopies
of green
stirring leaves
both threatening
and welcoming
intimate reveries
defying reason
caddy and greenkeepers
clubs swinging
with whimsy and wisdom
rather than surrendering
to uneventful bubble effects
of soapy sentiments
bursting with invention
submissive and rebellious
precise in word and gesture
one more comic joke to tell...

" Urging " ...

" Urging "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Urging
an approach
stressing "the folk"
of folklore
in the lives of us all
collected in stories
not to be ignored

standing on
springboards
prancing
and kicking
with the hairs
of a chipmunk's tail
in logging camp

you had to be there
beside the old timers
in the family
exchanging their glances
expelling air
coming closer and closer
to understanding

with the fineness of a stitch
and the finesse of a quilter
from start to finish
subtle influences
fingering techniques
core meanings

recurring themes
figures in strings
sheering sheep
spinning weaving
moonshiny nights
hummed lullabies...

" Knockout "...

" Knockout "

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Knockout fashion styles to spare
fearlessly and frankly no need to explain
styles for the ages admired by strangers
gaining accolades turning pages along the way

via arcade games for fine-art painters
using pencil and crayon atop tiered birthday cakes
as dream fabrications from the daybeds of college days
familiar roommate phases over spring breaks
having their way with crashing waves 'til graduation day

known to have gone-it-alone while sliding over trombone notes
stressing pitch and tone feeling right at home cocooned and cozy
staying focused soft upholstery like plush chaises back in the day

partaking of abundant transportation sipping lemonade
at final destinations getting away via travel agents
like private commentators paging through origins of nature
being viewed favorably feeling swept away by an amorous embrace

experienced and incorporated splendid admirations
of fruitful excavations as fragrant traces
percolating with temptation at times outrageously
mapped out on paper fully engaged
perceived spontaneously as second natures in aerial displays
musical scores dominating gliding conversations
in accounts of inspiration conceding joint aims...

" Problem Solving "...

" Problem Solving "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Problem solving
construction
in progress
during dry spells
as well as
freezing temps

nothing is unsettling
founding principles of the web
OK'd by friends in close elections

condemned by dread and jostled self-respect
having once favored wide spectrums
into layers of contempt while bumming cigarettes
of indiscriminate hemp having highs without end

" Whatever " like fire in the belly
perfectly calibrated by constant negation
of cultural sanctions quite frankly
via narcissistic behaviors

inhibiting effects
from recent divested
disembodied entities
academics architects
along new vectors
for sites themselves

stepping back figuring out
the real and the actual
within powerhouses
wearing towers as crowns
uncertainties on the ground
international challenges...

" Pressing" ...

" Pressing" by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Pressing buttons strategically seen as risky
arbitrarily treated "all day all night Maryanne"
0-1 yet again upon pulling levers
for economic codependents all at the center
of confidential settlements "Can computers Be Offended?"

 not necessarily objectionable "What do you expect?"
especially from a lift of lemon with its own appeal before leaving
serving sherried kidneys chopped parsley as a garnish
for vegetable hotch potches puréed rhubarb caraway poppie

geography pockets flavored without flab maple extract
cinnamon dashes lemon-lime bass chicken curry Trinidad
molded ham salad in strict patterns "Food food brings happiness"

heat-proof serving platters shallow casseroles cake racks
atop coffee cans for Moo Goo Gai Pan and watercress in France
sliced scallions chicken with apples liver pate salad

surrounded by asparagus juniper berries cracked
mocha frappe chutney naturally gifilte fish with horseradish
Red Sea cabbage Swedis meat patties skewered bananas...

" Muzzles"...

" Muzzles " by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Muzzles online via snipers' social media style
often siding with riding waves of anger
hanging ten incidentally swept
anti-intelligentsia gestures

deemed like independent investments
into chains of events via campaign pledges
versus scuffling protesters' lingering negative events
having taken giant steps seen as last vestiges
being violently repressed by mass arrests

torn-up directives mourning deaths self-selecting
distressed residents in crowd-sourced portraits
recognized as art forms amid all the loud squawking
graffiti scrawled on walls sundown outbound put downs

coming down to earth treated cautiously healers' salves
chamomile marigold and ground earthworms
under uniformity restoring authority to nonconformists
already being well received preliminarily in the fields
of renowned colleagues with the secrets of bone and growth

over the proceedings below crowded three deep
with full sleeves cramming the remaining seats
left unsuitable for teaching bedazzled by buildings
feeling preoccupied however darkly oil lamps gas globes
for virtuosos looking under microscopes only one eye open

for mere braggadocios compliant hands eyes and minds
as a requirement for mini-riots of cocktail tree hypotheses
supplanting validities having affinities for tomatoes
grafted onto potatoes propagated during spring breaks

in order to lose weight when it rains
developing more and more dates
in particular places due to ecological information
sown somewhere over rainbow groves...

" Hardly "...

" Hardly "

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Hardly overstating the case as a labor of love
getting off to a slow start in the process
of a marvelous early on published posthumously
at the periphery of early interest
as associative riffs for instance
lending novelty to metropolitan geography

recasting facades along boulevards
reconciling marchers confetti flying from rooftops
intermittently acknowledged  by war correspondents
via anonymous kindred spirit throngs
as forensic phenomenons capturing drama
in papers and correspondence

smelling salts and snobs
outcomes at large harder to spot
upper echelons of moral shock
envy gossip while amassing options

in the belfry in between eccentricity and insanity
no perhapses regarding serious matters
encountered by drunken habits and indelicate languages
taken out of character laughing with silly ways and antics
regularly fouled in avoidance of regularity
being constantly surveilled entering
into contract involuntarily stopping eating

sobbing loudly forcibly informed of facts
with complete and total abandon
losing assets upon dismantlement
in all matter and manner of personal habits

symbolized as scrappy and dam proud of it
considered to be lucky to the nth degree
inquiring and giddy over long periods
sharp and witty ways of living
the second of a trilogy in spiritual retreat
retaining specificity ranging haphazardly
fear and panic along with inaction
tiresome distraction a lover's absence...