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...