Filling in the Picture

" Filling in the Picture "

by Suzán Jiván

Filling in the picture
with a digital billboard
by manically flashing
like blindingly desirous light
against a matte background
of abject black...

Stung by Perception

" Stung by Perception "

by Suzán Jiván

Stung by perception
while obsessively confessing
perpetually psychedelic never-nevers...

Ultimately

" Ultimately "

by Suzán Jiván

Ultimately
howling
nowadays
tapped out
and still stunned
by an all-of-a-sudden
deconstruction...

Still on the Line

" Still on the Line "

by Suzán Jiván

Still on the line
songwriting
about niceties
in keeping
with ringing
deeply
with meaning
while unwaveringly
experiencing insistently
rivetting repetition...

Uncovered

" Uncovered "

by Suzán Jiván

Uncovered
together
attending
to the pretended
protection
of an edge
along with
the recollected
intensity
of the center...

Simple Virtues

" Simple Virtues "

by Suzán Jiván

Simple virtues
in review
playing with sympathies
before whipping minimalistic
zigzags into straighter paths
with greater clarity...

No Less Familiar

" No Less Familiar "

by Suzán Jiván

No less familiar
tiptoeing
toward commitment
like cultish lovers
lavishing flings
like eccentricities
while angling
toward scarcely-
examined
exasperating flack...

Real Urban Life

" Real Urban Life "

by Suzán Jiván

Real urban life
inclined to derive
serious-mindedness
in dim light
as tirelessly
worthwhile...

Light-Filled

" Light-Filled "

by Suzán Jiván

Light-filled
remindings
at nighttime
like indecipherable
outsiders most likely
to be docile as opposed to vile...

Taking Over

" Taking Over "

by Suzán Jiván

Taking over
tearing apart
plans to unveil
wavewashed
glass scoured
on a large scale...

Duplicity

" Duplicity "

by Suzán Jiván

Duplicity
upheld
as posturing
for authenticity
while simultaneously
being belied by make-believe...

Appealing Intimacy

" Appealing Intimacy "

by Suzán Jiván

Appealing intimacy
while quickly
morphing
into invariably
reedy chords
of a desultory
courtship...

The Surprise Pick

" The Surprise Pick "

by Suzán Jiván

The surprise pick
as a stunt or riff
in each compartment
of the grid
silhouetted as munificent
individuals
with the willingness
to forgive...

A Live Model

" A Live Model"

by Suzán Jiván

A live model
like a stand-in
for a gutsy
makeover
in the moment
thought
to gave been
stunned
to discover
an endless
run
of figurative
sculpture
as a conceptual
stunt...

Iconic Delight

" Iconic Delight "

by Suzán Jiván

Iconic delight
dramatized
as desire
like divine
blazes of light
eternalized...

A Reflection

" A Reflection "

by Suzán Jiván

A reflection
as a collection
of ephemera
meant
to represent
almost any
remembrance
as a haphazard
shimmering mash-up
of disparate artifacts...

On the Rise

" On the Rise "

by Suzán Jiván

On the rise
like a sublime timetable
cited as desire cross-fertilized
by longtime and big-time
delights digitized worldwide...

Skipping Over

" Skipping Over "

by Suzán Jiván

Skipping over
cherry-picked
intelligence
while sidestepping
inevitable questions
as a vain attempt
to settle into the center
of seeming benigness
spiked by anxiety...

Hidden No Mores

" Hidden No Mores "

by Suzán Jiván

Filling the grid
with prevalence
and hidden no mores
while ignoring the discord of recall
being inlaid with steel and slate...

Low Visibility

" Low Visibility "

by Suzán Jiván

Low visibility
with high concepts
in short supply
as lowlifes
maraud inside
divine high-rises...

Striking Sightlines

" Striking Sightlines "

by Suzán Jiván

Attracts and assaults
with, " Come Hither "
then, " GO NOW! "
as fanatically kitschy
ups and downs
like graphically punchy
disguises underlying
striking sightlines...

Wildly Textured

" Wildly Textured "

by Suzán Jiván

Wildly textured
with astute attention
to written mentions
as testaments
to revved-up
seminal connections...

The Actual Title

" The Actual Title "

by Suzán Jiván

The actual title
on front covers
discreetly lip-synced
with glossy meaning
in theory like idealized
creeds silkscreened...

Jig Sawed

" Jig Sawed "

by Suzán Jiván

Jig sawed
frantic acts
present
and past
as shutter
snapped
blurry
photographs
with honorary
status in scraps...

The Hybrid Genre

" The Hybrid Genre "

by Suzán Jiván

The hybrid genre
joint shots
subtracted patterns
during travels
stretching and flexing
while twitching in place
with a claimed collaborator...

Sheer Interestingness

" Sheer Interestingness "

by Suzán Jiván

Sheer interestingness
fitted together with little else
than memorable elements
represented by as of yet
undetected specters...

You Know Something

" You Know Something "

by Suzán Jiván

You know something
as actual
after a small brawl
ignoring no more
moral outrage
as if unfazed
by mauling
mind games...

Of Course

" Of Course "

by Suzán Jiván

Of course
a performance
widely held
while bending
herself
as a long recoil...

Wonders

" Wonders "

by Suzán Jiván

Wonders
something
widely held
yet readily spent
like all the rest
of an inaccessible self
long and slender
as a hidden hatpin
bent as well...

A How-To

" A How-To "

by Suzán Jiván

A how-to
pointing out
reshuffled
tracks
or perhaps
unanswered
therefores
as long-term
cursive worlds
hover then plunge
as stubbornly touching
and shamelessly yesterday...

A Chameleon

" A Chameleon "

by Suzán Jiván

A chameleon
absorbing
cheers and applause
as lovely and lovelorn
beyond recall
forced to make a point...

Calling On

" Calling On "

by Suzán Jiván

Calling on
prospects
for calm
while
declining
to comment
as upstarts
on laptops
wirelessly
scoff
at hands-on...

Completely Unordinary

" Completely Unordinary "

Completely unordinary
as a call-and-response opera
relying on darkness
while wending its way
with appraisers and mediators
as compensation for actually engaging
in conversation as give-and-take...

Authorities on Myth

" Authorities on Myth "

by Suzán Jiván

Authorities on myth
ritually visual
tinged
with glib artifice
thumbing
with deliberateness
reminiscent
of the intrinsic
complicity
of distant history
with persistent
unease retrenching
after crises
ultimately evoking
homespun
demeanors
by tapping
into
deeply-rooted
ancient trees...

For the Most Part

" For the Most Part "

by Suzán Jiván

For the most part
in-between art
real bodies
in wonkily
ardent dialogues
involving
wildly improvisational
and innovative up takes
of blonde waifs in translation
with costumes and props
displayed as handmade
with exaggerated makeup
and handsomely generated combinations seen
as somewhere between
indiscreet realism
and the mendacity
of abstraction...

A Bit Melodramatically

" A Bit Melodramatically "

by Suzán Jiván

A bit melodramatically
answering the need
for make believe
as autobiography
complete
with white knuckling
in a series
taking a little something
from each as artistic thinking
while veering toward dismantling
conflicting boundaries
within proximity
to deemed necessities...

Gray Landscapes

" Gray Landscapes "

by Suzán Jiván

Gray landscapes
populated
by pupating psyches
morphing inside
chrysalis-like
cocoons
of primordial light...

In Varying Ways

" In Varying Ways "

by Suzán Jiván

In varying ways
illustrating stasis
of a new day
on an anti-gravitational
glacial pavement
between bare legs...

One of a Handful

" One of a Handful "

by Suzán Jiván

One of a handful
of honeyed harmonies
scourged as perversion
uncoiling before foiled rapport...

On the Wrong Side

" On the Wrong Side "

by Suzán Jiván

On the wrong side
of wondering why
sweethearts sing
of sweet green icing
unwaveringly
as unperceived
demeaning deceit
spreading readily...

Rediscovered

" Rediscovered "

by Suzán Jiván

Rediscovered
on the brink
of one seen
this spring
in obscurity
long and winding
like hypnotic
black and white...

Embellished

" Embellished "

by Suzán Jiván

Embellished
like psychedelic
storytelling
confessing
obsessively
while tripping
with floridity
and illicit acidity...

A Masterly Tale

" A Masterly Tale "

by Suzán Jiván

A masterly tale
astonishingly fast
on a small scale
as a four-bar vamp
scarcely championing
the soon-to-be
quite possibly
exemplary
roughly
folksy...

More Likely

" More Likely "

by Suzán Jiván

More likely
coming to mind
as admired
like silent-movie styles
inspired by dichotomies
in direct lines of sight...

Prominently Featuring

" Prominently Featuring "

by Suzán Jiván

Prominently featuring
more likely to think pre-eminently
while continuing to renew a mood
of previously unseen tedious mimicry...

Embracing

" Embracing "

by Suzán Jiván

Embracing
niceties
while ringed
by floridity
and unflagging
romantic mantras...

Directionless

" Directionless "

by Suzán Jiván

Directionless
snorts 'n' struts
as posturings of macho
with un-self-conscious
intimate knowledge
of volatile subplots
chronicling unbridgeable
lamentable distances...

A Pileup

" A Pileup "

by Suzán Jiván

A pileup
of clichés
half-baked
by an old flame
credibly portrayed
like puerile behavior
while aging...

By Itself

" By Itself "

by Suzán Jiván

By itself
as a sense
of the poetically
independent
like impetuousness
written in lyrically squiggly lines...

Helps Explain

" Helps Explain "

by Suzán Jiván

Helps explain
by the way
of the cognoscenti
as unwilling or unable
to give up myth making...