The Venerable

" The Venerable "

by Suzán Jiván

The venerable
would-be
titularly grisly
sendups
of noxiously
nonstop parodies
of bleak mysteries
in the meantime...

Between

" Between "

by Suzán Jiván

Between
silliness
and
sublimity
in the lead
of the murky
complexity
of a fiendishly
clear-cut
make believe...

Ramblings

" Ramblings "

by Suzán Jiván

Ramblings
of a timeshare
with the gap
between
large-scale
unraveling
and the truth
of the matter
well-acted...

Centered

" Centered "

by Suzán Jiván

This new edition
centered
in venerable
direction
waxing eloquently
as vague
layovers of maybes...

To an Even Greater Degree

" To an Even Greater Degree "

by Suzán Jiván

To an even greater degree
as the latest teaser
adept at wielding
a pretty good sense
of whether
the fun is infectious...

Good-Hearted

" Good-Hearted "

by Suzán Jiván

Good-hearted
yet uneven
stylized screenings
of malignant demons
with timid piety
albeit eking...

Looking Back

" Looking Back "

by Suzán Jiván

Looking back
grappling
with multi-
character
absurdist
attacks
on the futility
of language
as chitchat
of the less-than-
promising cast
increasingly
in demand
with wisecracks
and flashbacks
in a riot of spangles...

Broadening the Story

" Broadening the Story "

by Suzán Jiván

Broadening the story
with more affection than regret
as instructive benefit
gently tweaked
by a closet beatnik
feeling like the padding
worn in the past
as costumes for posses...

A Welter of Sentiment

" A Welter of Sentiment "

by Suzán Jiván

A welter of sentiment
transcending pretension
as stubbornly emotionless
under the assumption
of more than one
latest lover
not saying much
like many a sculptor
overshadowed by younger
enviable luster...

Here and There

" Here and There "

by Suzán Jiván

Here and there
as areas of expansion
presiding like the conscience
of scratchy noir at the very start...

More Promising

" More Promising "

by Suzán Jiván

More promising
as philosophy
greatly enlarged
by semicircle arches
re-enacted in antebellum glass...

The Odds

" The Odds "

by Suzán Jiván

Despite
the odds
non-
fiction
wafts
with
sonorous
knowledge
atop
pastoral
sod...

It Speaks

" It Speaks "

by Suzán Jiván

It speaks as a mannequin
bearing a montaged hodgepodge
in an anonymous rhombus-
like big box atop an acropolis
on the far side of the possible...

After a Fashion

" After a Fashion "

by Suzán Jiván

After a fashion
finding the answer
dealing in rags
and hailing
the tanglings
of ready-to-wear
with chic heat
and glare...

A Rare Site

" A Rate Site "

by Suzán Jiván

A rare site
informally concise
while being hinted
at precisely
by circled letters
nimbly written
within a puzzler's grid...

Daring to Dance

" Daring to Dance "

by Suzán Jiván

Daring to dance
in banded sandals
after lying prone
over swollen knolls
of the unknown...

Memory Inducing

" Memory Inducing "

by Suzán Jiván

Memory-inducing music
concluding as illusion
by making use of tubing
glaring brass
and reverberating reeds
in upbeat rhapsodies
of downloaded realities...

The Feelings Seen

" The Feelings Seen "

by Suzán Jiván

The feelings seen
like out-of-body
experiences
collectively linking
transparencies
in packs
as dopplegängers dance
in free-standing
ectoplasmic camps...

Areas of Morning

" Areas of Morning "

by Suzán Jiván

Areas of morning
fog forecast for tomorrow
as an extraordinarily bewildering
beginning sleepily blinking
and nearly breathing in
the appearing ether
as light defines life
immediately upon arrival...

Real-life Seconds

" Real-life Seconds "

by Suzán Jiván

Real-life seconds
inevitable in every sense
with the fresh perspective
of projected virtualness
as intrepidly perpetual
yet potentially perilous
pensive experiments...

Directed

" Directed "

by Suzán Jiván

Directed
with affection
when taking credit
however necessary
as much as anything
without comment...

In Evidence

" In Evidence "

by Suzán Jiván

In evidence
kinky queasy
areas in between
waging stealthy
intoxication
versus
inordinately
poisonous
forgings
of blatant
deprivations
of fate...

In the Order

" In the Order "

by Suzán Jiván

In the order
of freewheeling
priorities
ruining tries
to undermine
outright revivals
of nostalgic contrivance...

Undeniable Resonance

" Undeniable Resonance "

by Suzán Jiván

Undeniable resonance
like didactical aspects
of diasporous actions
evoking eye-opening
compassion
as extravaganzas
seen in legions
of mass media...

Docile Inhabitants

" Docile Inhabitants "

by Suzán Jiván

Docile inhabitants
randomly inhaling
precariously passing
masses of stale air
after being spooked
by the ensuing
hullabaloo
of a bazooka...

It's Only a Matter

" It's Only a Matter "

by Suzán Jiván

It's only a matter
of having been
in the picture
depicted cryptically
in miniature
like a nightmarish
example
of jocularity
only available
in the past...

Seemingly Fit to Begin

" Seemingly Fit to Begin "

by Suzán Jiván

Seemingly fit to begin
a fictional history
preferring to be
prolifically contradictory
after carefully examining
head-spinning
guessings of feelings...

Repeats

" Repeats "

by Suzán Jiván

Repeats
as much
as anything
adhere
to experiencing
probing
confoundings
posed
as over-blown
voice overs...

Dedicated

" Dedicated "

by Suzán Jiván

Dedicated
to the memory
as a restless
experiment
with impassioned
words and gestures
as primary elements
within the totality
of partial recall
ground into complex
compounds...

Currently

" Currently "

by Suzán Jiván

Currently
competing
with relinquishing
anguishful inklings
like a call-and-response opera
in varying pieces after appearing
as light gazers at night
peering at bits of life
within a far-off nocturne...

From Gravity to Good Humor

" From Gravity to Good Humor "

by Suzán Jiván

From gravity to good humor
fast-moving and empathetic
challenged by circumstance
and a starchy hierarchy
with the contradictions
of class as nasty vestiges
of malevolence
played rather stagily...

Reinforced

" Reinforced "

by Suzán Jiván

Reinforced
decorum
in old-
fashioned
stories
told as tales
of fair-
mindedness
while plotting
story lines
with irony
and outlining
the undermining
of an original design
like contrived denial...

Made Notorious

" Made Notorious "

by Suzán Jiván

Made notorious
by wit and concision
with sly, hangdog brilliance
stepping nimbly
passed unexamined
schematics stacked
anachronistically
with the garrulous disparities
of rancorous romance...

The Sense of Connection

" The Sense of Connection "

by Suzán Jiván

The sense of connection
as affectingly complex
not to mention the intensity
of reflective gestures
like genuflecting intellectuals
with navel-gazing tendencies...

At the Site

" At the Site "

by Suzán Jiván

At the site
of mere insight
belied by
cult-like
indecipherable
silenced striking
underlying
noncompliance
with quiet defiance...

A Contemporary Number

" A Contemporary Number "

by Suzán Jiván

A contemporary number
combining pattering feet
with a tilting upper body beneath
an amplified cloudless sky
like divine sapphire eyes shining
as azure seas undulating with appeal...

In Advance

" In Advance "

by Suzán Jiván

In advance
held as a pair
in example
of supple love
powerfully colorful
while wonderfully wily
at the same time
with lively mutations
overtaking becoming staid...

Candidly Implanted

" Candidly Implanted "

by Suzán Jiván

Candidly implanted in asphalt
as hilariously blasphemous
exhibiting astonishing
dexterity as perverts prowl
in search of tumultuously
driven love handed off
as taut paranoia with pause...

Abbreviated

" Abbreviated "

by Suzán Jiván

Abbreviated
communication
as a minimization
of long-engaging
conversation
with the accentuation
on curt blurbs
and terse learning...

Suddenly Turning

" Suddenly Turning "

by Suzán Jiván

Suddenly turning
then stalling
after recalling
burning attention
to many attempts
to splice together
long pauses
with short bursts
of spent energy...

Around the Same Time

" Around the Sane Time "

by Suzán Jiván

Around the sane time
done from life
most likely dramatized
and long-been defined
like self-described icons
as highlighted triumphs
rectified by diodes...

Strictly Prrsonal

" Strictly Personal "

by Suzán Jiván

Strictly personal
and well worth
noting after over-
coming studies
in emotion
taken over
as moments
of old like close-
mouthed make-
overs...

A Contest Among Objects

" A Contest Among Objects "

by Suzán Jiván

A contest among objects
as mash-ups
enhancing
the scantily clad
with hazy infatuation
ranked
as frankly changing
giving way
to inner radiance...

A Typical Scene

" A Typical Scene "

by Suzán Jiván

A typical scene
circling as if in a tepid mixture
of average imaginings
artistically switching
as an atypically rich
mixture of mythic
compounds soundly
grounded in enormous
mounds of the profound...

Cross Fertilizing

" Cross Fertilizing "

by Suzán Jiván

Cross fertilizing
the benign
with delight
like a hybridized
desire to thrive
by striving
to be realized
as a disciple
of vivified
daily lives...

In an Arc

" In an Arc "

by Suzán Jiván

In an arc
of pitch
darkness
with the eery
feeling
of being
unable to see
perceived
remedial
beamings
from the east
as a restoratively
vigorous elixir
imbibed
like fine lines
of intense de-light...

Visibly and Palpably

" Visibly and Palpably "

by Suzán Jiván

Visibly and palpably
nonplussed by tumult
akin to a nocturne din
as if in an unhusking
of the sun...

Nighttime

" Nighttime "

by Suzán Jiván

Nighttime
rivaling a blind-sided outsider
kowtowing in silence while shying away from the pervasive
wanings of lunate phases
across a cratered face...

In Question

" In Question "

by Suzán Jiván

In question
the verdant
freshness
of a clenched
single stem
drenched
with lugubrious
duplicitousness
like stymied
societal tiers...

A Rather Tricky Task

" A Rather Tricky Task "

by Suzán Jiván

A rather tricky task
languishing
then abandoning
despair
in a haphazardly
long passage
of perhaps
still huddled
all of a sudden
with irreversible love...