Asylum

" Asylum "

by Suzán Jiván

Expletive-filled
achy-breaky
wincing while
turning the pages
of a plain-spoken rowdy side
committed to the frightening
asylum in the back of the mind.

While

" While "

by Suzán Jiván

On hand
to argue
and to fret
with a blunt pen
in amusement
of contempt
for subjective
existence
punctuated
by wide
melting eyes
all of the while.

Hung

" Hung "

by Suzán Jiván

Hung like portraits
of intercepted
satellite transmissions
in a kind of trickery
still startlingly
taken too seriously.

Fabrications

" Fabrications "

by Suzán Jiván

An exaggerated tale with fabrications
of a drib here and a drab there
along a bread-crumb trail
for displaced shaken-up brainies.

Lookout

" Lookout "

by Suzán Jiván

On the lookout
but not cut out
to look hard
for four-foot
floral sculptures
as evidence
for resurrection
of previous losses
from débutante
balls in question.

Buildup

" Buildup "

by Suzán Jiván

Amid the buildup
along a strip
on the condition
of anonymity
for the so-called
power quartet
of the U.N., E.U., U.S.
and former U.S.S.R.
being spared from emphatically
rhetorical nationalistic attacks.

A Curative Stand

" A Curative Stand "

by Suzán Jiván

Worsening divisions
with no relief
for the besieged
in an expiring cease-fire
failing to take
a curative stand
for ailing peace plans.

Airborne

" Airborne "

by Suzán Jiván

Narrowing gaps
between sensory hairs
simulating airborne vibrations
for energy changes
toward a starting point.

Evening

" Evening "

Widening and deepening
of geopolitical uncertainty
in the sticky evening air
filled with its riddles.

Empty

" Empty "

by Suzán Jiván

Latest heated statements
from rumbling earthquakes
streaking overhead
spewing contents
from empty lecturns.

Mulivolume

" Multivolume "

by Suzán Jiván

Hot-not-to-trot
multivolume
runs of bad luck
all washed up
post-punk
hokum-filled wilts
of hothouse blossoms.

Direction

" Direction "

by Suzán Jiván

Trimmed down
and toughened up
in a narrow epic
of the astonishly nonterrible
thanks to brisk direction
and minimal remembrance.

Tell All

" Tell All "

by Suzán Jiván

Absurdly enjoyable
gales of giddy laughter
and rapturous gasps of awe
fundamentally flawed
by tell-all luckless guffaws.

Parentheses

" Parentheses "

by Suzán Jiván

Behind the scenes
seriously lipsynching
in parentheses
among other things
featuring gleeful
reimaginings
of stealing
every scene.

Propulsive

" Propulsive "

by Suzán Jiván

Incendiary rasps of age
dictating hard-chomping
propulsive thumps
of rhythmic funk
charging a cover
for an irresistable
lineup of drums
in a club.

Stop-Start

" Stop-Start "

by Suzán Jiván

Admittedly unreliable
grimly literal split images
in pursuit of clarity and truth
with absurdist sound and fury
in vertiginous stop-start riffs.

Commiserating

" Commiserating "

by Suzán Jiván

A frenzy of lookups
for content and meaning
of commiserating people
plaintively singing
in definitely-hefty textures.

Fascination

" Fascination "

by Suzán Jiván

Having to seek it to find it
pragmatic but aptly candid
while still in the grasp
of romantic fascination.

Replicated

" Replicated "

by Suzán Jiván

Time-consuming
well-made sight gags
indiscriminately replicated
by rock-scissors-paper.

Irregular

" Irregular "

by Suzán Jiván

Deep cracks
in the steely calm
and scraping past
irregular sheets of glass
on behalf of the steadfast
looking up to the evenhanded.

Linkages

" Linkages "

by Suzán Jiván

Linkages may appear
between idiosyncratic
disparate works
and feats of fabrication
in rudimentary connectedness
from mechanical slapstick.

Detritus

" Detritus "

by Suzán Jiván

Rich from and famous for
pre-existing pertinent detritus
with the wow factor of tiny bits
combatting physical slightness
with the minimizing of time.

Legends

" Legends "

by Suzán Jiván

Only part of
colorfully garbed
and accomplished
methodically
unconventional
urban legends
are made up
and scraped away.

Peripheral

" Peripheral "

by Suzán Jiván

Coming into being on a side street
face to face and man to man
as peripheral figures
exhibited as familiar
with cracked and darkened varnish.

Basso

" Basso "

by Suzán Jiván

All-night lights
in an empty sky
engorged with life
endowed with
the baritone
and basso
of extravagance
while connecting
comparisons
and contrasts
with subtleties
from less than
a sentence
of time
and attention.

Time

" Time "

by Suzán Jiván

Used to
obscure
a hard
recordable fact
time passed
snaking through
a daisy chain.

Unspecifics

" Unspecifics "

by Suzán Jiván

Dollar shifts
pockets filled
with vintage
unspecifics
crucially
assisted
with trivial
fiscal incidents
of aesthetic integrity.

Resistance

" Resistance "

by Suzán Jiván

Simply staring
with hapless deadpan
at near chance
with stiffening lips
offering formidable
resistance
with intense wincing.

Storytelling

" Storytelling "

by Suzán Jiván

At least a bit
menacing
in perception
of real-world
questioning
by storytelling
while knowingly
winking and
blatantly blinking.

Unease

" Unease "

by Suzán Jiván

Somewhat quaintly called
but can't be ignored
running along a formidable
palette of acrobatics
too seriously to shrink
from authenticity
and responsibility
expressing unease.

Relic

" Relic "

by Suzán Jiván

A relic
from another
intersection
left in tact
as an escapist
simultaneously
hand-painted
and dessicated.

Cast

" Cast "

by Suzán Jiván

Stopped by
the odd night
squeezing past
the oblivious by
stopping to listen
one day last
uncannily
damaged
firmly cast.

Cautionary

" Cautionary "

by Suzán Jiván

A decline
as a downhill slide
with cautionary tales
flooded with fly ash
over vast areas
of potential toxicity
just downstream.

Pardon

" Pardon "

by Suzán Jiván

Pulling back a pardon
dropping the gloves
tempted to pass along
unwelcomed presents
sounding effective
and even chastened
but never changing.

Kindred

" Kindred "

by Suzán Jiván

Causing deep unease
and raising fears
of serious injury
from corruption inquiries
of armed militias
and their kindred spirits.

Shouting

" Shouting "

by Suzán Jiván

Willing to switch
from paper to pixels
within shouting distance
of an oath in the midst
of witnesses
of catalysts
still pitching.

Distressed

" Distressed "

by Suzán Jiván

A steel-reinforced
layered performance
distressed with speckles
and scratches suggesting
very much of the present
in dusty black stencils
of further content.

Codified

" Codified "

by Suzán Jiván

Less codified
rereleased
with more
than pastiche
structuring long
spliced stories
of endless
digression
stepping back
and adding more
than pompadours.

Reimagining

" Reimagining "

by Suzán Jiván

Reimagining
using the brain's primitive
subconscious visual system
proving a perfect fit
for grappling and wrestling.

Heaving

" Heaving "

by Suzán Jiván

Finding
losing
and
regaining
heaving
and swaying
the most
sophisticated
impresssion
of skating
still feeling
the same.

Spinning

" Spinning "

by Suzán Jiván

Jolting
halting
one by one
painstakingly
spinning and twisting
into increasingly-
distant double bills.

Outcome

" Outcome "

by Suzán Jiván

Holiday
hoop-la
versus bah-
hum-bug
and shape-
shifting
old chums
whatever
the outcome.

Uncanny

" Uncanny "

by Suzán Jiván

Uncanny acuity
against flat
backgrounds
of finely-tuned
formal qualities
mocking the
extravagantly-
fashionable
and brilliantly
endowed.

Hallucinatory

" Hallucinatory "

by Suzán Jiván

Generally cheery
hallucinatory gauntlets
away from the bustle
of martyrdom
hung in sculpture
all summed up.

Tweaking

" Tweaking "

by Suzán Jiván

Spiffing up
little-seen
speakeasies
sharpening
the bite
carved in
nearly-
vertical
large reliefs
with tweaking.

Animus

" Animus "

by Suzán Jiván

High-keyed
and brash
stretching on
snaking orange
into assuringly-smooth
seeming continuity
through utopian groups
of anonymous animus.

Dabbed On

" Dabbed On "

by Suzán Jiván

Running in place saturated
drawn, brushed, washed
dabbed-on batty logic
connecting the dots.

Nucleus

" Nucleus "

by Suzán Jiván

Only the nucleus
of an exuberant
volitile unit
is tamped down
by wackily
comic reactions
of goshes and guffaws.

Mishmash

" Mishmash "

by Suzán Jiván

In a mishmash
of a kind of magic
mocking of the bizarre
wanding of artistic genres
in a cattle-stampeding pastiche
across a swelling widescreen
embodying lofty preachiness
in between insurrectionary peaks.

Seige

" Seige "

by Suzán Jiván

Eloquence in silence as in speech
both fiery and under seige
while extravagantly zigzagging
between brilliance and lucidity.