With Projections Called Style

" With Projections Called Style "

by Suzán Jiván

A fragrant mixture self-seeding
spreading leaves as silver filigrees
of Artemisia with chives
and thyme as stoneflies
For a moment biting violins
both as logical and inexplicable
like a pilgrimage with a shimmy
left unfinished
Ably depicted as straightforwardly
as a poet and mystic
of the lickety-split at a crowded vigil
For prowling animals
as artifacts of the wary
in fecal matter between two camps
pliant and groovy
in a mirrored universe
on the multiple moons of Jupiter
Like widely-separated
compound eyes
with projections called style
on the undersides
Considered primitive
with slender cerci
on threadlike antennae
Simple biting predacious cycles
on stone-bottomed streams
cross-crevicing
forward facing
torpid prey...