A Blurb as an Explanation

" A Blurb as an Explanation "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Often to a Fault "

Often to a fault
in a potential windfall
as a quirk in the tax law
with drawbacks
of exasperation
while puttering
in a haze
of fading constraints
and into the ostentatious
returning of favors
like lingerie
that goes without saying
as a starting place
greatly outnumbering paintings
in a constant deluge
of polarizing faces
Legendarily intense
terrifyingly oversized
staged in unending dives
with indecipherable movie rights
on longer ungodly
in a silly costume
as an option
while leaping off the pages
of self-identification
as a former curator
after battling a plague
with a blurb as an explanation
of conflict or shame centuries later
Collapsing time and space
as a crossed-legged fall from grace
with intoxicating scarification
and bristling ostentation
as an outcrop of conglomerates
besotted by bygone brachiopods
as fossils...

Hair-Tossing Affairs

" Hair-Tossing Affairs "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Might Be a Prequel "

Might be a prequel
to an apocalypse
as a blockbuster
based on comics
that couldn't stop
as slaphappy
rap sheets
of noncombatants
Bullying and belittling
careless
hair-tossing affairs
where nastiness
becomes tedious
in stunning scenery
suddenly obsolete
like a bolted man of steel
fraught by leaf peepers
In the lead, most eagerly
recklessly teachable
convincingly pliable
sometimes
like slender prisms
of insignificant nickel
in continuous equivalents
added as fragments
in mass
of rarely attractive
equally fine examples
of the rare
pyramidal crystal
violet and brittle
As a calamitous
as a steady hand
with death-defying daring
and the over-amplification
of a broad tail
for catching insects
in the air...

Crudely Made, Mostly of Clay

" Crudely Made, Mostly of Clay "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

Crudely made, mostly of clay
with open and closed quotations
both flat and molded over
am acidic tradition
implying great distance
and darkness within
a bug-eyed fish
fragmented by shimmers
brandishing instances
a long way since
in sand-filled crystal
and glassy gypsum
Elegantly unfinished
sinking and re-emerging
having both lungs and gills
with an extra trump trick
counted as a winner
in a leadership transition
of narrative nonfiction
as public opinion
like unfettered drips
of possibility
in pre-existence
Subsequently different
curving spherically
during weathering
as solid specimens
of clear members
like re-entrance
of phosphorescence
with the coloration of flame
tending to remain
as isolated celestite
With the highest refinement
of time-stretching alignment
while musing on science
freely improvised as airtight
along a boundary line
like a kind of tidy
easily identified
supreme irony
flourishing despite
desires to flee
from symbols
of decency
with fatigue
and irreverency
for the atrocities
of families
smashed in mass
as is currently
the fashion
Thought to be extinct
while breeding colonially
along the Gulf Stream
quietly out at sea
rising high
with rapid wingbeats
then plummeting
picking squid
and little fish
with a small bill
off a cliff...

Self-Propelled by Conflicting Agendas

" Self-Propelled
by Conflicting Agendas "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Pandemic Potential "

Pandemic potential
as tested in ferrets
with major consequences
like lethal weapons
with up to 50% of infection
ending in influenza deaths
like bio-terror
with or without intent
in controlled experiments
along a long-lost stretch
knitted together reconnected
again and again
self-propelled by conflicting agendas
viral in essence as a deft epidemic
Requiring thousands of hours
of the justly proud in heritage councils
for the rare inhabitants of branded skippers on a larval host plant
neither too wet nor too dry
within the confines of small vials
in avoidance of parasites
as opposed to butterflies
nearing full size under natural light
From the primary blowpipe
oxidizing and appearing to rise
from argentite difficult to recognize
on platinum wire near the beginning
of mining while testing for silver
then applying as serpentine
and liable to be look-alikes...

Based Mostly on Sexual Attraction

" Based Mostly on Sexual Attraction "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

Based mostly on sexual attraction
timed to coincide
with incandescent lights
to the visibly recognized
profiles on one side
becoming more lifelike
with eyes fixed to the right
in formed alliance with dynasties
as if by surprise
Coveted by hundreds
cultivated as cults
with a cocky chuckle
and a coo and cluck
rendered by others
as wellsprings of impulse
Like straphangers in enamel
drawing overwhelming crowds
giving succinct accounts
of what went down
while pointing out
and coalescing around
the here-and-now
with know-how
for now as a gadabout
In a topsy-turvy greenhouse
lined with tiny teeth
and an untrained eye
for nearly exact copies
involving industrial espionage
carving out paw feet
out of troughs
having never sat for a portrait
with eagles for support
fairly sleepy
over the years
surpassing
six figures
as extravagantly avid
dashed-off acumens
of abandon
synchronized
out-of-sight
yellow-green
over strokes
of ochre...

Truly Comes to Life

" Truly Comes to Life "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

Truly comes to life
in the only place of its kind
where subcultures thrive
within cozy confines
of electronic devices
like overhead lights
beaming down
on black gowns
over white chemise
in a dreamy life
Brokering a release
by forcing a dummy
to overruff
with a diamond king
rendering
candle sticks obsolete
toggling between
flinty and fiery
contiguously
like an infirmity
broodingly scholarly
bawling all the more
long delayed
and totally exhausting
while under assault
but maintaining decorum
with an air of fading grandeur
by hammering phrases
in echo and delay...

Last-Minute Whimsical Wishes

" Last Minute Whimsical Wishes "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

Last-minute whimsical wishes
of innocence crowded in
with throbbing and thriving
under blue skies
commingling
effortlessly
with red and white wines
divided by a horizon line
turned upside down
set off by a diamond pattern
with fascinating patterns
of randomness
in graduating grays
squarely in place
as constant change
shared by a preoccupation
with setting a truncated stage
being pelted by rain
frame by frame
otherwise naked
except for suggestive red
Empathetically presented
in battlefields and trenches
as widely avoided attempts
at the cerebral as well as the sensual
like medleys of color-coded bells
let alone everything else
Slyly suggestive
as an assemblage
of objects in question
like an underbelly
slightly pumped up
but not exactly ugly
along a jagged span
of the hopelessly romantic
furiously fast at striking a match
made by flashing masculinity
in the vicinity of femininity in silhouette
While in the works with permission
to sit in a giant labyrinth
of stand alone significance
as an idealized figure
depicted as a walking stick
for a recent acquisition
of a horned griffin
with a gorgon face
draped in a lion-skin cape...

Hubba Hubba from Down Under

" Hubba Hubba from Down Under "

by Suzán Jiván

Double plush
luminous love
unretouched
sugar honey
perfect pucker
rosebud luster
hubba hubba
from down under
Preferable
to others
listed above
as various
bushy shrubs
numerous
clusters
pale pulp
succulent
young
moxie-plum
bare-knuckled
fisticuffs
addictive scrum
uncertain tumult
finely cut
redbud
fleshy berry
arrowhead...

Like a Lash Blast Fully Amped

" Like a Lash Blast Fully Amped "

by Suzán Jován

At its highest pitch
since glowing skin
and fashion hits
with amazing richness
where beauty wins
by sharing pro tips
of exquisiteness
that can't miss
like a lash blast
fully amped
with glamour
tooth and nail
Unfolding
while tasting
vaguely nutlike
with large showy spikes
of edible rind grown wild
Hands on markets
stroking harder
while flapping backwards
and defeating gravity
commandingly
with few guardrails
smack in the middle
of scattered artifacts
under glass
as aerial straps
sweet and sassy
mastering the outlandish
with the will-o-the-wisp...

The Deliberateness of a Sorceress

" The Deliberateness of a Sorceress "

by Suzán Jiván

Fabulous other universes filled in
with the deliberateness of a sorceress
dashed off with joy after coursing through mourning dragged along
by jokey anecdotes offered as solos
for vivacious clones of the unknown
as minimalist opposites
actively pitching
like copper-clad
load-bearing
recovery plans
for must-have clans
of the completely revamped
Re-staging scenes
while looking backwards
and inwards at anonymity
with rare examples
of declarative
narratives
coming
out of nowhere
as spittlebug nymphs
with patterned skills
as collaborative banners
like newly fringed nymphs
with simple filaments of detritus
Imaginatively backing
true nostalgia
as quasi-memory
by bumbling through history
while reading phonetically
from phantom-era magazines
traumatized by siege
Pinpoints with projections
called, " styles " occupying
a widening worldwide
with compound eyes
on the undersides
along shorelines
while feeding
on lichen...

Slapstick in Lipstick

" Slapstick in Lipstick "

by Suzán Jiván

Vaudevillian
slapstick in lipstick
intermittently seen
as piece offerings
in a chic dress
and high heels
while sitting
primly
on a balcony
complete
with walkie-
talkies
for refugees
as words
pop
onto a screen
suggestively
like age-old
notions
of identity
thought to be
beleaguering
after an unveiling
unexposed
and unmapped
in historical matters
of cantilevered detail
expanding and contracting to scale
with a kind of jet lag on a sprawling
scaffolding of early examples
of unswept hair especially flared
like heirlooms rarely surpassed
by longstanding hallucinatory drawings
of porcelain orbs
As supernatural as stop-action
on a smudgy canvas
of the old-fashioned
Heavily impastoed
segments of dance
like mind travel with ballast
Occasionally dabbling
with the dramatic
out of context
with feminist gestures
hanging
at different levels
Compelled
by the contentious
being
portrayed as vacuous
praise
like fleeting creations
of independent labels
with nothing except
the legitimacy
of the still image
printed
in millimeters
whisked
without incident
into silent films...

Epithets for the Unpregnant

" Epithets for the Unpregnant "

by Suzán Jiván

A sharp drop in obligatory stops
snubbing some forerunners
in a blood sport for a spoiler
of the poor in a portrait
coiling and recouping
after the extraordinary
flare of a muzzle flash
Framed in bronze
inserted between columns
of the long-gone
in a war monument
to conventional art
from afar but still close to the heart
with a provocative home-alone quality
as clipping attest to extensive press
largely given to men in intense
epithets for the unpregnant...

Semi-Stages of the Pseudo-Sacred

" Semi-Stages of the Pseudo-Sacred "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, "Well Heeled "

Well healed as site-specific
and always riveting
with an acid tongue
and droll delivery
full of jokey, but largely
charm-free preconceived
theater like featured premieres
of follies like an underlying
high-minded muddle
in the middle of nothing
but the monotony
of a feckless freckle face
recklessly accessed
as imperfection
opposed to adolescent innocence
Slyly reinvented, increasingly
smothering and bewildering.
Directly in the sweet spot
of a typical odyssey
as an emerging body
inadvertently exposed
to free uploads
acquiring their own potency
with blistering notes
in long-running shows
as a clown known
all over the globe
like an irreversible coma
In empathy with untested enemies
with only a tenuous connection
while settling for an unmentionable
tragic mashup with a rotating cast
Ambitiously staged as aging
giving free reign
to appalling fascination
and poetic observation
like naysayers
in semi-stages of the pseudo-sacred
waxing and waning
in gansta strains...

The Big Willingness

" The Big Willingness "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Fearlessly
Original Eye "

A fearlessly original eye
unprepared
for the honeyed hostility
and acidic pleasantries
of an old sweetheart
like a brand-new motto
long since forgotten
loudly and clearly
in a steady stream
of placid freedom
beautifully acted
and carefully adapted
to changing realities
as a subconscious scream
From pitiable to downright admirable
bidding farewell to tiny white lies
as unlikely reminders
for the population at large
Amid the big willingness
to love within a strict grid system
as hardly limited like granitic culprits
linked between misery and authenticity
when pushed through a straw
in a slack-jawed courtship
of soothing wooing
becoming brutish
with both dewiness
and ridicule as amusement
Posturing with an attitude
of sourness with an edge of hysteria
and a steely sense of self as tellingly
cherishable when animated
with wisecracking veracity
as completely pipsqueaky...

Solos as the Focus

" Solos as the Focus "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " If You Missed
the Grand Gala "

If you missed
the grand gala
while trying
to catch up
to the bare
necessities
whizzy
by at high
speed
past
master-
pieces
against
flickering
screens
with scenes
of catastrophes
in smoking ruins
of black bamboo
as a cartoonist
of the vernal
and foolish
with the satiric
draftsmanship
of a non-
traditionalist
engendering
a kaleidoscopic
agenda
of a former
director
of, " Let's
Get it Together! "
In new digs
going, "Pfffft!"
after waking up
on sleepy streets
without rhyme
or reason
in makeshift
seats of shearling
devoted to regal days
during navigations
through space
with solos as the focus
in calibrated poses
with hocus-pocus
as ways to escape
the fast-paced
by snaking
across baggage-
ladened stages...

Overwintering with Purplish Lips

" Overwintering with Purplish Lips "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " It Needs to Be Repeated "

It
needs
to be
repeated
deliberately
on a hand-
held scale
in an expanse
from decades past
loosely branched
with downy hairs pairing
as aromatic axils and bracts
overwintering with purplish lips
tinged with anise in pine barrens
steeped with pineapple tea
sprinkled with tansy
Spanning dense mats
along a central crease
of prominent pink
as a refreshing drink
with richly sweet
conical seeds
prickly, bristly
Seemingly endless
sculptural splendor
with a penchant for duress
subtly and indirectly
as strict intellect
mixed with blousy figures
difficult to grasp
like harrowing histories
handsomely cross-hatched
and profusely patterned
in an elaborate tapestry
of frayed strands...

A Rhinestoned Dumpster Diver

" A Rhinestoned Dumpster Diver "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Best Suits Her Nature "

As best suits
her nature
matching faces
with names
as a part
of declarations
busily
and consistently
akin
to a polished
mirror
sunset tinted
at a high
pitch
Yet prevailing as
passive
slack-jawed paint
splatter
whetted at random
on a horizontal arm
trapped
where spectacles
prevail
as stippled
patches
of yellow and amber
in a canon
Lumpen yet
shimmering
with opalescence
while slouching
around
a sultry sculpture
ensnared
by a prankster
with a parodistical
grin
fixed in the 50's
First and last
like a rhinestoned dumpster diver
with a thorny side and a lethal bite
exclusively at night ebonylike
predicated on the sublime
as a reminder of carefree
scrapbooked lives
With more than one way
to wear a bath towel
unchallenged
and forever on tap
as a pastel palette
stretching out
tightly wound around
brass and brassy
with a bombastic
raised hand
notwithstanding
demonic clashes
and blasting fanfares...

Plying the Overlap

" Plying the Overlap "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Will Also Underscore "

Will also underscore
taking over over
seeing
inter-
active
access
to lavender lilacs
and notions of masculinity
both overdue and a bit
behind the times like
a parade of familiar names
along the way
as an extrapolation
of the seemingly tame
and unstraight risqué
Ripped from today
toppled over by a bank
crouched over
a dead opponent
drawing more crowds
with unseemly immediacy
and authenticity
long since eclipsed
by a string supporter
in a small audience
as the best of all
sometimes pointless
like a clotheshorse
sewing wild oats
Marvelously flexible
and full of possibility
enough to make you dizzy
as a half-dressed odalisque
on the periphery
piled high with frippery
and festooned
in striped pantaloons
Playing the overlap
between the artificial
and the natural
with a butterfly catch
held tightly scratched
and incised scarifyingly
fighting for release
while nose diving
into a white
cube with holes
in its ceiling
complete
with a fingernails-
on-the-chalkboard feeling...

Unrolling in Rococo

" Unrolling in Rococo "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Deadpan Smirk "

With a deadpan
smirk
increasingly nerve-
rattling
as sardonic
gags
and antagonistic
shtick
as a study in
bliss
while still a bit
gimpy
and deliberately
oblivious
lost in a blizzard
after beginning
to fizzle
with acidic
witticisms
and head-spinning
verbal artillery
like scrolls of poetry
unrolling in rococo
willed into existence
nimbly and exquisitely
as funnily familiar
In high-rise buildings
defined by giant slides
corkscrewing confusedly
hailed as amusement
when ejecting viewers
for wearing birthday suits
still damp, stinging
and dazed, but grinning
after a wicked twist
with the privileged
devised as brilliant
when booked overnights
as bored, violated
and cranky
like an emulation
of sensory deprivation
becoming suseptible
to strains of mayhem
while in a meditative state
Meticulously painted
as an indication of gravitating
to the strange and pagan
as famously deranged
becoming eerily silent
while reading, " Keep to the Right " ...

Made to Hallucinate

" Made to Hallucinate "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Into Decline "

Into decline
burdened by
growing needs
under staggering shields
yielding to swelling ranks
of supposed saviors
thrown into danger
as a huge redo
in a frieze-like wound
of youth and beauty
In an appointment-only space
as a suite of galleries for buzzing
honey bees packed up
in a mobile structure
being squeezed
by whirring wings
laced with curry
and emptied
of nectar
while taking place
in stages
of monographed
installations
made of stiffening
clay
shaped by haughty
curators
in order to forestall
change
While exhibiting their
favorites
in anticipation
of a reinstallation
within tents
and under umbrellas
that keep coming up
as entitlements
renamed, "Untitled"
coinciding
with the unsigned
nearly
three times the size
of unoccupied
and preoccupied
like
legislators on
wavers
made to hallucinate
during
a driving reign...

An Unbroken Wave of Adoration

" An Unbroken Wave of Adoration "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Could Be a Landmark "

Could be a landmark
applied to people
like ultraviolet rays
with diverse inclinations
in a prestigious chamber
with sounds of nature
nonplussed by tumult
in funereal black
difficult to capture
as a panoply
of slippery facets
like oil on canvas
partially dismantled
in exasperation
Partly financial
folded and printed
with polka dots
on gouache
while wrestling
and boxing
on a table top
for art lovers
of found objects
As absurdist monuments
like punchy murals
dwarfed by buildings
with infectious buoyancy
along a corse boardwalk
with passing throngs
in worldly phenomenons
on concrete blocks
Affirming and assuring
while engaging
with the world
like the converging
sightlines of a really big idea
In an unbroken wave of adoration
as uncontainable vibrato
in the long-awaited paying attention
to a sprawling creation
behind a ground-breaking
purple curtain in a tender duet
with a soft melody ranging easily
between affection and arabesque
in retrospect on a dialectical
contemporary set forever and ever...

Visible and Palpable

" Visible and Palpable "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " At Once Romantic
and Commonsensical "

At once romantic
and commonsensical
remaining essentially
locked
in sterile delinquency
with troubling
greetings
punctuated by a dangling
shard
of alarm as a problem
of subplots
in an anonymous
peer review
Not to be confused
as a curtain
raiser
fairing only
slightly better
than wishing
in vain
for a paper
airplane
to fly someday
over the rainbow
with puns
and wordplay
showing off
anyway
that goes
without saying
getting carried
away
all for the asking
in a bubble bath
Sure to emerge
visible and palpable
with the feel of gravel
as just one more habit
on a carefully
constructed path
gradually revealing
a view of a square
gathering momentum
in a romantic landscape
of volcanic sand
and the hiss
of an aerosol can...

Standing Apart from the Harsh

" Standing Apart from the Harsh "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Cartwheeling
as Phosphorescent Stars "

Cartwheeling
as phosphorescent stars
in rumors first heard
to heed the need
to sightsee and eavesdrop
as a starlit harlot
and starry-eyed artist
On a former loading dock
standing apart from the harsh
with Johnnie Walker
in acknowledgement
of a Grey Goose
far removed
as a muse
super hard
and deeply
fearful
Leaning
over black
granite
carefully
grandstanding
with excited chatter
as a flapping bat
being ravaged
at a newsstand
Under close surveillance
on a yoke-back chair
carved
from a single block
of marble
as seen on a blog
like continuity
in a limited series
of perfect acquisitions
filling the gap
as a major absence
depicting importance
in water and chalk...

Cross-Hatched Accents

" Cross-Hatched Accents "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Clearly Over
a Tidy Churn "

Clearly over a tidy churn
with terse drumming
and plenty to work with
as layers of artifice
and cross-hatched accents
to match finding traction
in flickering contraptions
swelling with rain
rooted at center stage
On a woody peg, naked
in cross-section
with scented edges
silvery when fresh, dense
spirelike, attaining heights
widely triangular
pyramidal and lacy
with raised scars
bracketed and bent
backwards blackened
with age
Borne in pairs, cone bearing
silver haired
ovoid acorns, scaly
cups rough, pubescent shrub
rusty stubby, lustrous southern
curled under...

Sidestepping Stereotypes

" Sidestepping Stereotypes "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Shaping Up
as a Target "

Shaping up as a target
for mismatched partners
in a fatalistic broody place
with baby blues trained
on a fixed horizon line
of mysterioso silence
with bleachy-white teeth
framed as if waking
with a gun-slinging stranger
from the information age
with spellchecking gestures and gaits
updated in Super 8
like a culprit of aging laying waste
to the super-accommodating
Flirting with allowing
as series of flower-powers
as interpretively superb
and dazzling, but risk averse
beginning in miniature
juxtaposed with lyrical gifts
surprisingly magical
with a tempestuous side
of deft fluidity freewheeling
as a supple balancing act
of feisty excitement
capitalizing
on the extremely frightening
by sidestepping stereotypes
like sweet pliable themes
of pure technique
becoming big and brawny...

Vernal Inevitability

" Vernal Inevitability "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Senescence
of Self-Defense "

In a hard-hitting
senescence
of self-defense
suspicious
of more or less
as larger flatter
cells in arterial plaque
becoming overly active
and churning out
patches of malignancy
like relationships between
aging and inflammation
fostering getting shorter
in self-styled highlights
probably drunken
and possibly violent
Outshining an imposing
atmosphere of fear
by threading together
senses of dread
being fed
by a profusion
of grueling shoots
and lethal tubers
inducing
wilted pistillates
musky heads
and necrotic stems
then-
dropping reams
of fertile seeds
onto blackening fields
with a vernal inevitability
following dormancy
with a redeeming alchemy...

A Choreography of the Eyes

" A Choreography of the Eyes "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Something of a One-Note "

Something of a one-
note Bellwort
drooping at the end
of a forking stem
discarding
the leafy portions
as yellow bells
dangling
beneath slender
arching stems-
berries red
Hearing ineffable
echoes
soft and feathery
as past and present
laments
in threadlike torment
mixed with myth
littered with prescriptives
of the apocalyptic
As a straight-up impersonation
of a toppled stage
at the end of an unsustainable
rainbow
for the unnamed on opening day
plagued
by power plays and becoming upstaged
by a miming narrator
with an amazingly
pliant spine
and a precise
choreography
of the eyes...

Otherwise Gaudy Good Times

" Otherwise Gaudy Good Times "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Becoming Funny
and Weird and Sloppy "

Becoming funny and weird and sloppy
when thrown for a loop
by mishandled duties
in narrow green rooms
of the totally natural
emptied out
as paradigms
of unhappiness
like fried ants
in disparate
fairy tales
as fractured
characters
mismatched
casts
With the rhetorical tic
of a vulgar kitsch
dismissed
with the fragility
of unscientific rigor
while leaping
over limits
unflinchingly
like a prestigious
mistress
and pre-eminent
critic
of pictorial brilliance
in multiple disciplines
of gambler, swindler
and alchemist
With spotty knowledge
prompted
by the topmost gossip
of an inexorable prosecutor
in two parts
as an unorthodox memoir
In spicy cuisine, sweetie.
" Gosh Almighty! "
freely embracing
then running away
after a break up
with a jack-of-all-trades
then leaving the stage
along a fertile plain
of strap-shaped stream beds
within a broader range
of late middle age
Assuming a deep groove
of allocution
dramatically patterned
in red and black
reduced to powder
when mixed
with pungent flowers
of a musk mallow
And hiding out
in otherwise
gaudy good times
as indecipherable
uninspired writings
like a riot
of inedible wild
loosestrife
Then all is right
in story lines
like fireweed
in showy spikes
replete with sweet
buckeye...

Practically in One's Face

" Practically in One's Face "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Almost Upon Us "

Almost upon us
in a partner's arms
all along while peeling off
the not-so-sure
in a guided tour
of enormous glory
unperformed
before an audience
in counterpoint
whittled down
to a compelling account
of calamitous snorts of scorn
first and foremost
with deniability of course
never coming across
as the mission falters
with impecunious support
in the forefront
Sustained by a rum-laced cake
practically in one's face
taken way too far
like much of a flock
with little regard
for the precious metals
of a talisman
from everywhere else
endlessly summoning up
turbulent bravado
in moral documents
quickly pivoting
with the dismissiveness
of unlikely innocents
in microchips
Insular and prickly
top-to-bottom
as erect fronds
from stout rootstock
rich in starch
pounded into flour
as scaly nut-grass
scattered
and difficult
to gather
as cattails
and bracken
Like bureaucratic
black magic
loutish and tacky
with a cockney accent
as a geriatric alligator
peevish and snappy
with an enigmatic laugh
shielding against cancer
as a bizarre idiosyncratic charm
with a fiercely common big heart...

Like Legendary Hellbenders

" Like Legendary Hellbenders "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Propped Up on a Harpsichord "

Propped up on a harpsichord
willfully transformed
by a trenchant voice
with a bit of tabloid force
pulling the whole score off course
in a series of wall pieces
hanging from a rectangular peg rack
as a penchant for the abstract
on a red-and-white banner
in the manner of a patchwork
twisting against black
in a vacant chapel
Narrow, ragged and masked
with a miasmic camphor
Like extra hours
for taxidermied animals
stacked one upon the other
on their favorite basking log
as a fête gallante
of contemporary art
with greatly enlarged heads
as early nesters
Like legendary Hellbenders
facing hordes of predators
almost nothing with scores
to settle with anyone else
like a code of silence
on a slimed fishing line
As miners panning for gold
along a remote riverside
forming nuggets from dust
in carved cuttlefish bones
Steeped in local lore
along twin falls
tickled at the thought
of being carved
from pink marble
then being mocked
as facsimiles
of the flotsam
like rubber duckies
gone amok
on virtually any subject
if not for nothing
as a font wonk
with interlocking
camaraderie...

As Arias Earmarked

" As Arias Earmarked "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " On a Vibraphone
on Saturday Night "

On a vibraphone
on Saturday Night
played on the same spot
as collaborative art
for concerts
of the not-so-hard
as arias earmarked
as melancholic
when composed
as stand-alone
fading drones
changing in exposure
in overtures
played over
the long-haul
as encores
of masterful joy
Usually green beneath
when freed from the mud
by using your feet
in extreme need
low and creeping
with an acrid biting quality
turning pink in spring
Unlike anything
which is to say
as stubby as a spadix
tapering
to a tight cluster
like an unpalatable
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
do not eat raw
or boiled on long
leaf stalks
with thick joints
as opposed
to a cautionary
dogbane
or common
nightshade
Or perhaps
as Bastard
Toadflax
attached singly
pale underneath
crowned by sepals
small, green and sweet
hairless and quickly branching
along sandy shores
toothless, or nearly so
with showy lobes
and deep groans
from lame jokes
becoming pigeon-holed
as a Texas Toad
burying itself
when threatened
as a consequence
of specimen collecting
with a sharp edge
on a cranial crest
creating a depression
returning to the terrestrial
with a poorly-defined
black stripe...

Free-Spirited Improvisation

" Free-Spirited Improvisation "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " At the Nexus "

At the nexus of adoring the gawping
of a goofball hoop-skirted performance
in plain sight all along creaking
floorboards as test runs
come stumbling to an end
Envied and imitated
as the critically acclaimed
like throwaways
of the strangely unsustainable
Absorbed into the mainstream
by channeling lipstick and cockiness
implicitly followed by the love
of artistry with psycho-melodic sass
While hugging tightly with a mellifluous
yelp in falsetto headlong
behind closed doors
and coming across as nothing short
In all accordings graciously seen
above the waste with enablement
to perform the sacred
as free-spirited improvisation
in the upper ranges...

Bracing for Covert Saviors

" Bracing for Covert Saviors "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Trading Blame "

Trading blame
and bracing for covert saviors
speciously revered
as ungodly ruling bodies
not pretty
but still unbeaten
On the big-name A-list
after a brazen raid
on and off stage
without the restraints
of a plaything
Whizzing at high speed
during a lifelong trip at sea
with the familiar sitcomish shtick
of nibbling on chips
as a cartoonish patrician
in response to a mêlange
of mixed feelings
from shredded egos
an swapped barbs
Rambling on
while name dropping
like blarney for a sexpot
with skeletal parts
under binoculars
irregardless
Commandingly in charge
and hence harmless
after cashing a last heart
discarding a diamond
from the dummy
running clubs
with a high trump
and declared ruffs
as luxury-loving
under discussion
Finding a comfort
in the early
incontrovertible
inertness
of someone
else's words
in a close-
mouthed world
Plotting to rebuild
after bringing
down the house
without boundaries
like shooting stars
re-enacted as blasts
with little chance
of ravaging impact
when slammed
into taking action
as an unprecedented
show of power
in a touchdown
Being coddled
above and beyond
with cultural prominence
like landmarks as said parts
of artistry venturing
onto an over-
hanging branch
with an intimate scale
and carefree abandon...

Tending to Fix the Bitter

" Tending to Fix the Bitter "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Stylistically Divergent "

Stylistically divergent
urban and rural
either yellowish or purplish
tending to fix the bitter
in just over a minute
with wild ginger
Above ground with solitary
flowers of brown
supported between stout
wooly stalks bared in pairs
Bundled up in popular culture
trimmed in fur opposed to open roads
with hips held on the bush
through winter in bristly thickets
covered with sticky reddish hairs
in sandy pastures
Coarse species forming dense clumps
of conspicuously wrinkled leaves
large, deep rose to white
in survival along dry
open roadsides
Large arching grey-green
stout and downy
with unopened flowers
lacking milky sap upland...

Unfamiliar Dimensions

" Unfamiliar Dimensions "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Longtime Confidant "

A longtime confidant of probably not
following the normal standards
and demographics as blonde
and bubbly even when saying
dark things triumphantly
by setting up punchlines like, "um"
Then goosing the crowd
by shouting out, " Get Out! "
after a catty sigh like longtime
undying bookings on, " Tonight "
Blissfully like a kind of salad
made famous by Julia Child
while getting blubbery
from Monopoly money
As anonymous artisans
wearing conical
likenesses to carved
bony objects
steeped in red
across a predatory marital bed
stretched across a frenzied center
of cryogenic stealth
like a naysaying mindset
As a common result early in its run
sometimes funny, sometimes suffering
coming to life at dusk
with an audible stillness
and a look of innocence
in a payola figure
Almost in its original form
seen by many many more
as a small comfort
exerpted from a longer version
with a close-up showing
a handful of loans
nailed in only two takes
late into middle age
Especially legendary
like a stupefying expression
spoken with a biting gesture
like a bug-eyed bonehead
resembling a walrus-tusked chessman
in a Medieval collection with no contest
Revelling in unfamiliar dimensions
with toothpicks and bits of string
glimpsing the unspecific
in an exhibition
scrapped as a catalog
too daunting to print
given the obvious
as impossible...

A Burgeoning Ethos

" A Burgeoning Ethos "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " In Some Essential Way "

In some essential way
endangered and underplayed
running off stage
posturing with self-conscious
intolerance and wobbly
sabotage in a dodgy deal
Overstuffed and underedited
as a hardly fitting end
intermittently wasted
and content to hang
with a cagy mate
forlornly drained
and wiped out painfully
In a low-wattage drama
masked with algae
as flattened captives
serrated toward the back
like a familiar, " snapper "
in a flask-shaped cavity
Within a burgeoning ethos
of erotic freedom
burrowing with front feet
around the margins of ponds
bound with goldenrod
fringed prominently
with a pink calyx
sweetened to taste...

New-Fangled Shrewdness

" New-Fangled Shrewdness "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Acute and Ardent "

Acute and ardent
supposed to have shown
new-fanged shrewdness
becoming pretty sure of grandeur
by unfurling under a curl
and turning furiously
into judge and jury for rulings
on innocence and guilt
As overlapping granular scales
with dark triangular patches
some black, some blue
like cross bands in arid
and semi-arid lands
with distinctly creviced females
and blandly barred bars
Clearly marked as clutches
in clump grass in sunny
woodlands and sandy
flats shy and wary
with splotches and spots
between femoral pores
found foraging in the morning
eyes paling in the damp...

Sirens and Moles

" Sirens and Moles "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Northern Temperate Zones "

Northern temperate zones
like sirens and moles
with distinct body regions
capped with packets of sperm
displayed in wide-ranging
layers of jellylike eggs
lost during transformation
yelping when captured
and squirming vigorously
when handled
Nestling in winter waiting for spring
in sheltered cavities emitting clicks
after wrestling in opportunistic litter
threatened by red underbellies
and swelling vents in defense December through May cave
dwelling lined with fleshy projections
on stream beds of detritus poorly known as predacious to incubating eggs tipped with black horny layers
Swept into the water by heavy rains
bypassing the tadpole stage
of yellowish flecks
over clear heads and necks
along with conspicuous tympanums
of warm moist skin hatching
into tail-wagging species
in swiftly flowing streams
Erupting like bubbles in tar pits
of hardship and foul-mouthed grit
given heady physicality
like gliding down an 80-foot wave
while dilating the entire length...

Joyful Abandon

" Joyful Abandon "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " An Heir Apparent "

An heir apparent
abundant in open
scrub oak
easily burrowing
prominently knobby
with dark spotting
and conspicuous
cranial crests
Filling in the picture
by setting aside differences
of messy textures
and confused senses
then trilling musically
breeding in a sensual pool
of a drenching monsoon
In the first two movements
principle and subsidiary
as the case with a penchant
for a frenzied tenth degree
when peppered with flecks
snout-to-vent
Opened and closed
as top-grossing replays
as mostly late compilations
of lighter-spirited days
Expressing joyful abandon
by basking on stumps
or lower reaches of tree trunks
after tunneling under
prickly brush with a husky skink...

A Recent Self-Release

" A Recent Self-Release "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Featuring the Accomplished "

Featuring the accomplished
as a recent self-release
while spinning with tradition
as well as the unexpected
twists and turns
of dramaturgical surgery
with the painstaking
detail of a noir gangster
in drag as a felon
without question
Obsessively pressing
the fast-forward button
like a vibrating device
for tricking the mind
in front of each eye
stymying dilation
plus befuddling
the tongue
When tethered
together
with momentum
while
hanging our heads
as a final
sign
of an opening
line
of the likewise
not far behind
Like
the equivalent
of a sinister
familiar
forced to draw
a single straw
and coming
up short...

Bo-ho Chic Prowess

" Bo-ho Chic Prowess "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Repurposed
Psych-Pop Hit "

A repurposed psych-pop hit
with bo-ho chic prowess
stuffed with marquee pop
Scottish post-rockers
pacing the stage
under stark spots
and Potter nods
Continuing to eschew linear pop
as an angular throwback
to giddy chic densely howling
throughout prog-pop
As burnt-caramel alto-sax
like idiosyncratic fearless sopranos
Like piano for four-hands
video-enhanced
and selectively adapted
as a caplet
of neat standards
Under the auspices
of a rotating set
for a vintage quartet
performing
torturous songs
as encores
Along side overlords
of overdue support
as taste-making
sharp guitars
Complete with finger pics
for double strings
plucked with exemplary
urgency
as modern post-pop Bach...

Making Gains

" Making Gains "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Notably Strong Last Week "

Notably strong last week
after making gains
with unworldly sensations
and rakish perturbations
Playing flugelhorn
in a rippling waltz
poignantly pinpointing
teary pipe dreams
in low keys
while wooing
goose-bump
producing
corkscrewing
Hurtling
two stories
after falling
backward
into sodden
double
entendres
packed
with mea
culpas
and manic
hand-
wringing
after
lapping gin
from a dog's dish
and prancing madly
at random or by accident...

The Most Interesting Character

" The Most Interesting Character "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " If This Cliché is Accurate "

If this cliché is accurate
as the most interesting character
with similarities to then and now
revisited by previously unique ideas
becoming humdrum
when borrowed from others
as burdensome
as phantom nones
Featured as new releases
piece by piece
with a ban on neither
harmonic catharsis
nor monophonic confessions
like retreaded laments
At least read as a script
rewritten as a premiere
for a serious super hero
top grossing anonymously
as Shakespeare turned zombie...

With a Likeness to Headlines

" With a Likeness to Headlines "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Amid So Many "

Amid so many lucky breaks
explained away as parting waves
of heartache like a mild narcotic
with a likeness to headlines
over the rest of our lives
Staying up late as painfully
long days like a range
of off stages over the decades
adjacent to diluted moods
of refusal like a hula
Cradled with string
while balancing
alternatives to pandering
as patchy pageantry
like copy cats of the drab
With a flourish amid the rather
real-life gag of untapped cat's cradles
being replaced by flirtation
cast haplessly backward
and fizzling out as juxtaposed solos
fated only to pose at the opening salvo

Mirrors of the Mercurial

" Mirrors of the Mercurial "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " All Got Together "

All got together
as an overamplification
of familial fragments
in sturm and drang
As distinctive talents
in versions of glass seen
as mirrors of the mercurial
let alone as an opening
like a star pitcher
with an honest moniker
hardly begun
Heavily salinized
at high speed
while flying
upside down
and backwards
with an uncertain laugh
in a slam-bang tank
filled with a fistful of skin
and a vial of unidentifiable pills
Starting circling while reading
something but coming
up bloody while tucked
away in amongst
a jumpy pulse
still docked
with an itchy
trigger finger
Never released
after lingering
with hit or miss
as wistful listenings
like preludes
to oral histories
in ancillary channels
pretty happily
Successes represented
as vocal chemistry
with a lettered gentleman
from strains of the almost famous
idealized like blinders
In a fierce argument
outliving its usefulness
as dead wrong
in an uninteractive
travel narrative
constantly on tap
talking back...

Passions Still

" Passions Still "

by Suzán Jiván

Not quite farcical offering another gloss
over a salsa and merengue cohort
put off by daring cast calls
to the complete annoyance
of purportedly loyal audiences
Not quite pulling off the tenacity
of a sometime thriller
imbued with youth in a biomusical
like a decisive timeline
for flinty survivors
with strong song styles
in working order
as passions still
underwritten
within an original script
Left uninvestigated since
a wizard-seeking gimmicky
deliberance with a tatted
wisecracking masked man
as the answer to lonely wales
with a backstabbing riot of spangles
And the beat goes on
as uninterrupted thumps
of disruptive percussion
finding the courage
to drum up
life's laments
summed up
punch drunk...

Fueling the Jukebox

" Fueling the Jukebox "

by Suzán Jiván

Must be done and much
of a thrashing man
like an overbearing female
fueling the jukebox
of an unsound heart
like a pick-pocketed
show stopper
retooled with uprooted
boomers
Trying really really hard
in belle canto stardom
on telecharge
as innocuous
ungodly and largely
charm-free
buried beneath
reordering glee
Pioneering revivals
in the twilight
like a diva-sized
ego that never dies
after a haunting life
hiding out otherwise inside
an indecipherable overnight
Fallen under the spell
of a hooch-swilling
bawdy talker with little
more than overwrought
rotating casts of amassed
farcical criminal fragility
clinched with narcissistic rigidity...

Chattering Objects

" Chattering Objects "

by Suzán Jiván

Off-putting starkness
of chattering objects
in high contrast
like giant tree slices
of self-conscious modesty
within earshot of a forest
Few and far in between
gesture and geometry
of the long-lost often
overlooked as either
industrious or lucky
like flingers of zingy
lines outshined
by a gaudy good time
In a long song and dance
all about a cappella
as full potential
when collectively
stepped above the rest
with the exception
of a wrenchingly placid set
after a crash landing
with a con man
in a failing cast
opening last
with spent passion
and avarice...

Being in the Know

" Being in the Know "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " There Is No Next "

There us no next
in undreamt attempts
to remember
after mulling over
being in the know
through voice overs
cobbled together
as odds and ends
conjuring hallways
clogged with tomrrows
In a dented wall
crumpled on the floor
in foot-long no ordinary
flute songs in short
longstanding
as manuscripts
from the past
In a rant of gasping
thin air in full-scale
blaring impairment
of future heirs
In formidable stills
of maudlin mundanity
dating from the old days
as blinking sweeps
on a radar screen
of incoming blips
in nano minutes...

For Anyone Interested

" For Anyone Interested "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Lauded by Critics "

Lauded by critics
with a flicker
for anyone interested
in miniature
differences in wit
as a state of weariness
without a trace of vagueness
between action and restraint
Shockingly clinical
blighted by road signs
funneling light
toward matinee idols
in full flight
with spikes of sapphire
scrutinized
by actual life on multiple sites
Guided by bona fides
from earlier times
like strivings
in little bits brimming
with papier-mâché figures
as blissful walk-ins
Imagining similar skits
intermittently
picturing mounting
multichannel legacies
unflinchingly
with cerulean skin
above suspicion
Like funkier digital quips
slightly off-kilter
when joining the ticket
with dissenting opinions
soaring as free-spirited mimics
invariably with antipathy
and added instability
Executed in gridded order
all for a cause of enforced symmetry
all according to inordinate laws
dipped in mortar with a blurry aura
Painted toylike commensurate
with memory and too little evidence
while pondered under stark
closely bobbed locks of harshness...