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...