Now and Over

" Now and Over "

by Suzán Jiván

Now and over
to the next
fennel and garlic
starting to soften
over medium heat
thickening slightly
Estimated on Thursday
picking up the pace
with change in the making
as traces of persuasion
by lantern-faced fundraisers
with insatiable slavering fangs
as dopplegängers
just days away
from the long-awaited
Closed for renovation
wafting from a café
all in the name
of fire regulations
and reinstallations
of imagined space
with great anticipation
in an empty gray space
of bewildering
states of opiate
intoxication
unmoored
from self-
deprecating
foundations
with waivers...