My Persona in Poems and Photos for Linda Erlich, PhD

Locked in a Dangerous Brinkmanship

2012-02-14T07:42:00.001-05:00

"Locked in a Dangerous Brinkmanship"

by Suzán Jiván

Locked in a dangerous brinkmanship
like the rift in ties shifting from trying
to reconcile to sabotage
once seen as unthinkable
cutting links to lineages
by subliminally undermining
sled-dog drivers much in the minds
of mushers lapping up the hunted...

Bluish Pinks of a Bird's Beak

2012-02-13T06:17:00.001-05:00

" Bluish Pinks of a Bird's Beak "

by Suzán Jiván

Recurring themes
as depictions of deities
spelled out
in the bluish pinks of a bird's beak
preening green prairies
pale and sandy basins
spotted gray...

Recounting Staccato

2012-02-12T10:39:00.001-05:00

" Recounting Staccato "

by Suzán Jiván

Fashion savvy
full length
moved away
concentrating
greatly acclaimed
recounting staccato
as unorthodoxy and banality
defined by an embrace sit, stay...

Seen as a Garnered Phenomenon

2012-02-11T12:05:00.001-05:00

" Seen as aGarnered Phenomenon "

by Suzán Jiván

The changes are tectonic
like a mélanged harbinger
of the fashion conscious
seen as a garnered phenomenon...

A Hilly Lot as a Garden

2012-02-10T08:03:00.000-05:00

" A Hilly Lot as a Garden "

by Suzán Jiván

A hilly lot as a garden
for rootstock
from a rooftop
with raindrops
collected at the car park

Accenting
a small plot
as a good spot
for a dwarf conifer
perfectly conical

III

No more
than a foot tall
along a matted walk
of glossy
mountain laurels...

A Ghost Bramble

2012-02-09T14:08:00.001-05:00

" A Ghost Bramble "

by Suzán Jiván

Recently began
hard and fast
ill-prepared
for a ghost bramble
as an example
of past razzle-dazzle
tamped by ectoplasmic cares...

Mistletoe Coast to Coast

2012-02-09T08:43:00.001-05:00

" Mistletoe Coast to Coast "

by Suzán Jiván

Common and widespread
sky-blue violet-grey
laying eggs

Prominent reddish orange
showy host oaks
mistletoe

III

Coast to coast
thornscrub pawpaw
far north white bordered...

Doubly Anomalous

2012-02-08T17:05:00.000-05:00

" Doubly Anomalous "

by Suzán Jiván

Doubly anomalous
clarity and security
toggling among dozens
feeling hamstrung
by a drill instructor
offering blunt shrugs
meant to be funny
offering up a chuckle
that self destructs...

Can You Retool Yourself?

2012-02-08T09:29:00.001-05:00

" Can You Retool Yourself? "

by Suzán Jiván

for Dr. Thomas Randall

Wounded
and wounding
now tethered
to a moral tale
as troubles
descend
rimless
with the universal question,
" Can you retool yourself? "

Wide Pied Wings Wandering

2012-02-08T07:34:00.001-05:00

" Wide Pied Wings Wandering "

by Suzán Jiván

Long and short white bands
raised or lowered over nape
solitary bars and spots
low-pitched, " hoop-hoop "
wide pied wings wandering...

The Eerie Screeched with Cheers

2012-02-07T17:32:00.001-05:00

" The Eerie Screeched with Cheers "

by Suzán Jiván

Few others reach a strained bonhomie
as one more believer observed secretly
looking at the real thing in keeping
with the eerie screeched with cheers
and a sinking feeling spat into being...

Out of Nowhere

2012-02-07T13:11:00.000-05:00

" Out of Nowhere "

by Suzán Jiván

Mild elsewhere
totally unaware
out of nowhere
seemingly rare
built to withstand
a Tour de France
proceeding with plans
as the chief of staff
in charge of variables
reinforced by free-for-alls
in free-fall during so-called
swaying in a quake...

Implicatively Rubbed and Scrubbed

2012-02-07T09:04:00.001-05:00

" Implicatively Rubbed and Scrubbed "

by Suzán Jiván

Lit by a gossipy wit with drifting type
like a homesick delivery
implicatively rubbed and scrubbed
as an affirmative, "ayuh"
after a fifth of fünf...

The Genesis of Heaven

2012-02-07T01:16:00.000-05:00

" The Genesis of Heaven "

by Suzán Jiván

Blacklisted with onyx
in monoclinic
conchoidal carvings
Under priests' garments
as the Genesis of heaven
like a Black Panther firebrand
on a hopscotched diagram
Quickened by the incongruous
ideologues of standup comedy
waffling with corsets and garters
in a naughty romp...

Highly Distressed Flowerheads

2012-02-06T19:02:00.001-05:00

" Highly Distressed Flowerheads "

by Suzán Jiván

Energized tension
without concession
as highly distressed
flowerheads
in search of respite
Growing low
to the ground
near the center
of gravity
like fingertips
on window sills
Firing on all cylinders
of pocketsized ivory
increasingly reliant
on the dicey
Yaying and hurraying
refusing to give way
to naysayers
as colorful stickpins
on festive grids...

Glued to the Roof

2012-02-06T14:55:00.001-05:00

" Glued to the Roof "

by Suzán Jiván

Easily reared on bramble leaves
as slender species with narrow wings
and highly convincing bigger hindwings
shedding legs when seized
belonging to a single genus
with front feet against silk sheets
from other colonies
stiffened by bits of detritus
as symbiotic substances
pumped into the young
suitably intrusive as pre-chewed food
as eggs glued to the roof
tunneling through into the groups'
droppings like diffusible nutrients...

Remaining Cheerful and Unbothered

2012-02-04T15:21:00.001-05:00

"Remaining Cheerful and Unbothered"

by Suzán Jiván

Objects between the strings
remaining cheerful and unbothered
by an Alice-in-Wonderland logic
consorting with streetwalkers
cultivating randomness and chance
with a much-liked man
mercifully attacking
avarice as satire
in remarriage
with a phalanx
of futuristic paintings
favoring their own
names as Salome...

Spanning Intensities

2012-02-04T08:34:00.001-05:00

" Spanning Intensities "

by Suzán Jiván

With a highly
compressed sense
for the first time
anyone can remember

As might be expected
on wall texts
spanning intensities
as fleur de lis

III

Heading toward the amenities
and nicities of artists' colonies
in wheat-strewn topographies...

Nesting on a Ledge

2012-02-03T11:21:00.001-05:00

" Nesting on a Ledge "

by Suzán Jiván

As a visitor
nesting
on a ledge
next
to a mining bee
buzzing

While crickets
roll leaves
into tropical
regions

III

With toughened forewings
where metamorphosis
is incomplete
needlelike

In conspicuous
cylinders
laid singly
or in masses

Folded flat
in damp plants
along green grasslands...

Pimping with the Wee Perversity

2012-02-02T09:05:00.001-05:00

" Pimping with the Wee Perversity "

by Suzán Jiván

Tucked away
long before
free streaming
like folklore
without a cause
as the all-important
excellently performed
in leotards and shorts
with male-female support
reinforced as scarcely the point
entangled in something more
than a genial grin put at risk
by bestowing a kiss
without a conscience
on a lutelike kora
tinged with a fiddle
and a pianist's plink
in full-length mink
while pimping
with the wee perversity
of underpinned forgiveness
hidden beneath a bearded chin...

Sequencing of a Girl's Pinky

2012-02-01T10:12:00.001-05:00

" Sequencing of a Girl's Pinky "

by Suzán Jiván

Facing
an under-
handed
back-
stabbing
out-
of-balance
lack
of caring
as do
no harm

Like a toxically
misogynistic
gynecological
oncologist

III

Replete
with physicianally
prescribed
repugnant venoms
and repellents

III

Spirited away
as noxiously
obnoxious
prodigies

Demonically plotting
a slow-burning drama
as an act of concision
like surgery with no frills

Promising
the quick
but sloppy
in robotic
shots of vodka

The genetic
sequencing
of a girl's pinky

VII

Unleashing
archaic genes
as offspring

VIII

Likely vanishing
clearly gasping
as a polecat

Packing
an anoxic
stink
as an anal
scent gland...

Unnoticed, Unarmed & Unmanned

2012-01-31T10:53:00.002-05:00

" Unnoticed, Unarmed & Unmanned "

by Suzán Jiván

An affront to sovereignty
under the provinces of the Pentagon
as drones buzz over the little-known in
unnoticed, unarmed and unmanned
crafts foreshadowing handfuls
of the last man standing
beneath the rumbling rafters
of a whistling psychopath...

Highly Attenuated Play

2012-01-30T09:06:00.001-05:00

" Highly Attenuated Play "

by Suzán Jiván

The near death
of the irreplaceable
having escaped
being tabulated as slaves

Under the moniker of folk art
with dry brush markings
of a hermit in a hut
made from fusty
ink and brush
of the unlucky

III

Secreted away
atop a corrugated plane
as highly attenuated play
in illusory booties over shoes...

A Classically Bona Fide Striving

2012-01-29T09:46:00.000-05:00

" A Classically Bona Fide Striving "

by Suzán Jiván

Man minds
his sleeping grandchild
after midnight
while dreaming of pack ice
shrinking
like retreating white-winged
endangered species

Forced to breed in captivity
in quarantine
hitchhiking on nursery trees

III

Stored in igloos made of concrete
covered
by stone-eating microbes
blighted
by fungi and lichens

Along
landlocked highways
less and less reliable
at different times
with heavy and light rains
falling in varying places

Fractured into factions of attack
unmarked and unmapped
in a monotony of gravel
parsed by tangents
on a sliding scale

Nudged here and there
without looking back
at sniffing animals
wearing artifice as armor

VII

Stabbing fingers skyward
as a classically bona fide striving
in a rapt exercise
with a passive statuette
in prickly defense
of morbidity
in pivotal trophies

VIII

Proudly pointing out the rapture
of song and dance
with a contrarian maverick
from the prevailing
underclass
with gross misunderstandings
praised
as an idyllic cast...

Relinquishing Savagery

2012-01-28T09:52:00.000-05:00

" Relinquishing Savagery "

by Suzán Jiván

A calm arm-twister
relinquishing savagery
by speaking out with civility
after singling out
lagging individual action
in benign hideouts
becoming cut-and-dry
like pie-in-the-sky-stealthy might
stealing by in noiseless flight
ready to strike across blurring lines
of nonviolence and deceitful hype...

Like an Obsessive Blessing

2012-01-27T05:14:00.001-05:00

" Like an Obsessive Blessing "

by Suzán Jiván

Slightly
stuffy
but
some-
what
hum-
ble
from
the long-
term fussing
of an absurdist public
in unusual numbers
as colorful sculptures
between finger and thumb

Becoming wonderfully messy
like an obsessive blessing
concentrating on the chockablock
avant-garde as slightly bucolic
tumultuous objects
in ponderous chartreuse and olive...

In the Face of Spectators

2012-01-26T09:21:00.001-05:00

" In the Face of Spectators "

by Suzán Jiván

Almost halo-like
escaping unscathed
by standing fast
in the face of spectators
like sword makers
in a background plane
illusionistically portrayed
and mathematically based
in heightened sensations
of unshakable faith
and irrepressible strength
garnering the same fate
of " The Annunciation "
in a bedchamber
twice as high as it is wide
like a foreshortened Christ...

The Myth of One as Too Vulnerable

2012-01-25T04:42:00.001-05:00

" The Myth of One as Too Vulnerable "

by Suzán Jiván

A new light to the wider urbanized
sprawling across lifetimes
of mile markers
like prickly matriarchs
emblazoned by bushwhackers
retreat from the urban elite
closest to the city freely or cheaply
as multi-tiers blanketing the region
with debunkings
of the myth of one as too vulnerable...

Sophisticated Domains

2012-01-24T18:38:00.001-05:00

" Sophisticated Domains "

by Suzán Jiván

Lingering
over achy phrases
as sophisticated domains
gone crazy
sounding tacky
like tasteless reality
sung ruefully
as husky and bluesy
flotsamy and blubbery
with satirical fragility
and random casualties
grotesquely hackneyed
as wannabes
with prominent scars
in ornamented bodies
of found objects
like epoxied hierarchies
of possibility
at least initially
as anomalies
involving bleaching
and teasing
coexisting arguably
as wiry wigs of irony...

Graphically Portrayed

2012-01-24T16:18:00.000-05:00

" Graphically Portrayed "

by Suzán Jiván

A wealthy backer
aggressively attacking
the eeewww factor
captured as chapters
of revulsion in matters
as shouting matches
for ick factors
in full houses
of haphazardly
quasi-autobiographical
smackings of animality
graphically portrayed
with an assassin's twang
while flooding the stage
with gross displays
unashamedly
followed by elation
in a parlor game
of disgusting charades...

Incessant Assuredness

2012-01-24T08:06:00.001-05:00

" Incessant Assuredness "

by Suzán Jiván

With tingling pleasure
unretrenched as tellingly celestial
with an unbridled sense in extremis bound together in intrepid
text-free spreads
with chapter headings
of incessant assuredness
in indelible complexities
of multidirectional reflections
ecstatically brandished
as an exacting scrapbook
of poetic couples
squiggling in the clinches...

Undulate, Elongate, Punctuate

2012-01-23T14:21:00.001-05:00

" Undulate, Elongate, Punctuate "

by Suzán Jiván

Unpatterned black bare
moist nostrils heavy boss
svelte forehead erectile crest
black garters upper legs
spotted flanks hind legs
undulate, elongate, punctuate
full length mouth agape
noisemaking nearly naked floodplain...

Tear-Jerkers of Absurdity

2012-01-23T09:06:00.001-05:00

" Tear-Jerkers of Absurdity "

by Suzán Jiván

Between finger
and thumb dun-
colored sculptures
pleasantly jumbled

All of a sudden
posthumously loved
in burdensome tumult
as a watercolor study

III

Sensibly enough
like newcomers
entirely in the nude

In casts that include
idiosyncratic humor
as pharmaceutical cures

Like tear-jerkers
of absurdity
seeping outward
overpoweringly...

Anchored by Nymphal Skin

2012-01-22T12:26:00.001-05:00

" Anchored by Nymphal Skin "

by Suzán Jiván

Slow
moving
mostly
noc-
turnal
blend-
ing
in
per-
fectly
with
a
good
sup-
ply
of
prey
in
between
parted
front
legs
in
a
genus
cap-
able
of
de-
cay
as
a
pa-
pery
egg
case
in
a
woo-
den
chamber
with
communally
chewed food
unsuitable
for wing-
less forms
feeding
on fungi
algae
and
lichens
Anchored by nymphal skin
and an exoskeleton
with abdominal segments
split down the back
into the thorax
remaining attached
to visible wing pads
as a praying mantid...

Building Momentum

2012-01-22T02:49:00.001-05:00

" Building Momentum "

by Suzán Jiván

A welter of mayhem
building momentum
from a glower to a pout
spellbound underground

Lilac walls
and
red doors
just, " Because "...

III

Living by wits
in flash-lighted
pictures
and the like
undisguised
anchored by
uncanny eyes

In pursuance
of mankind
like tough guys
hobbled by
black and white
at first light

Like memories of ice
at first sight
with razor-bladed vibes
designed entirely
as snippets from diaries

Incessantly reprinted
republished and revisited
as unexhibited inhibitions

VII

Pale pink, light green
and deep lavender
refractions
of extravagance
trickling
down hourglasses
coated in wax...

Hard-Wired as Fictionalized

2012-01-21T15:18:00.001-05:00

" Hard-Wired as Fictionalized "

by Suzán Jiván

Busy amping up with flashbacks
in a strange land foreshadowed
by glamorous attractions of alchemy
in admiring eye blinks
while hiccuping blindly
woefully unrecognized
sniffing and pinching
the predictably grisly
in the midst of whimsy
above the groove while digging in
decisively like two-timing
rarely harmonized velvety quiet
with the clear delight
of youthful reminders
hard-wired as fictionalized
grim statistics
of silhouetted brilliance
intrinsically dimmed
by double-crossed victims
as inconsistent sentimentalists...

Cleverly Senseless

2012-01-21T11:52:00.001-05:00

" Cleverly Senseless "

by Suzán Jiván

A passel of honors
on the long list
of the glorification of war
as a short story
filled with morphine hits
changing hands
in an armistice
of the hellishly compelling
brownish reds
intimately connected
with the lethal letters
of the cleverly senseless
giving up their dead
as learned lessons
crammed into a head
immersing itself in revenge...

Shell-Shocked and Raving

2012-01-21T09:40:00.001-05:00

" Shell-Shocked and Raving "

by Suzán Jiván

The
bar-
ren
ex-
panse
of
a
hil-
ly
waste-
land
with
grue-
some
flash-
backs
of rag-
tag top
brass
swoo-
ping
over
the
area
fright-
en-
ingly
ba-
by
faced
shell-
shocked
and
ra-
ving
bat-
tered
bla-
tant-
ly
at
stra-
tegic
lo-
ca-
tions
of
fu-
tile
en-
gage-
ments
in a
for-
eign
lan-
guage
with
mach-
in-
a-
tions...

Like a Bequeathed Beauty Queen

2012-01-20T14:50:00.001-05:00

" Like a Bequeathed Beauty Queen "

by Suzán Jiván

The perception of inevitability
permeated by the incapable
decimated by hard labor
bound for the stage
in an adaptation
of, " Hairspray "
with ease and imagination
like a bequeathed beauty queen
in a nation weary of the weird
being criticized widely
as glittery and incisive
in capering dance and brass
fanfares with advanced ticket sales
for the jaggedly handsome
and raggedly romantic
as slicked-backed shaggy
shaping the fragile played dazzlingly
culminating with a standing ovation
of harmonic celebration...

Dewlap at Jaw

2012-01-20T13:48:00.001-05:00

" Dewlap at Jaw "

by Suzán Jiván

Forward-hooked
horns calf born
in highlands
exclusive harems
distinctive pattern
as scarce aggregates
of bachelor males curving backward
in a darkening arc of miombo
short bodied, knock-kneed, scraggly
next to the camel largely adapted
as an extract from plants
like tussock grass
built rather small
dewlap at jaw
equally long
insubordinate
S-shaped horns
forequarters
loping along
migratory
ridged horns
U-forms
offspring born
waterless wards
sizable hoards
cow-like horns
knobby boss
somewhat longer
returning to the taller
spiral-horned dorsal borders
spotted torsos legs tawny thornbush
erect crest flexing chevron X...

Canting Side-to-Side

2012-01-19T08:44:00.001-05:00

" Canting Side-to-Side "

by Suzán Jiván

Flight feathers black, but white
under primaries brown juveniles
along shorelines around a yellow eye
large carcasses tiny larvae
big cavities through Sahara
waiting for scraps shaggy
ruff dusky pink bone-eating
revealing underwings raucous screams
nest lining mammalian skin and hair
canting side-to-side feeding on hares
and dik-diks monitor lizards
drinking preening inconspicuously
hidden heavy bellies sub-desert
stick nests at rest wing edges
red defenses graceful descents
shallow nests semi-desert
watershed empty steppes
snatched nestlings livestock pens
compulsive theft rivers edge
long crests lapping
wakes seizing
eye rings
dung beetles...

Over Winter

2012-01-18T09:07:00.000-05:00

" Over Winter "

by Suzán Jiván

Haunting
the outer beaches
as most migrants
in the interior
short thick bills
in winter
mournful whistle
dropping in the middle
long distance slimmer
wing tips rich whistle
golden-plover, snowy
piping Killdeer broken wing
flopping mostly orange
white collar field mark
obvious underparts
mobbed dark-tipped whistle
clear "wheeep" wave-washed
rocks harsh sharp foreparts
hard, "kwip" stout bill over winter
teetering bobbing uncommonly solitary
barred underparts muddy pond
bush top stodgy bulky body
marbled flocks of godwits
fairly common on one spot
whistles of wandering on and on
whinnying trilling
early in winter
darkening still...

Varying Enormously

2012-01-17T06:48:00.001-05:00

" Varying Enormously "

by Suzán Jiván

Like
an
after-
thought
as
strength
by
de-
fault
varying enormously
back and forth as eyes crossing
into relentless formulas
out of proportion
on hand
as free-
lance
petal
patterns
that
vanish
clearly scattered
off
campus
by a pathological draft...

Buzzy Buff

2012-01-16T16:34:00.001-05:00

" Buzzy Buff "

by Suzán Jiván

Rising
and falling
robinlike
but hoarser
as a dry call
while foraging
along tall
cottonwoods
all year long
waddling
on lawns
short tail
green gloss
gurgle whistle
rough trill
spiky bill
high-pitched
twitter
dark whisker
dense brush
buzzy buff
fluttering up...

Coming to the Fore

2012-01-16T09:27:00.001-05:00

" Coming to the Fore "

by Suzán Jiván

Raw and raucous
coming to the fore
ground out
and tipped off
as the epitome
of artistry
as paradoxical spots
of goofy honesty
applied to white
like stated desire
in a staid place
of " Home, Home
on the Range "
with the density
of dangly dipsticks
stippled with drips
daubs and dots...

A Lurid Romp

2012-01-13T18:52:00.001-05:00

" A Lurid Romp "

by Suzán Jiván

Hairpin twists
of coincidence
with implausible
principles
of nip-n-tuck
not soon enough
seemingly brittle
as one tough chick
of funny money
all of a sudden
unscrupulously
looping
in gestural
movements
gone askew
while covered
in tatoos
in a lurid
romp
past nagging
problems
with reasonable
analogues
as markers
snap and snarl...

Aborted Courtship

2012-01-13T07:16:00.001-05:00

" Aborted Courtship "

by Suzán Jiván

Inshore waters
spawning
dorsal and caudal
fins forked
much sought
caught midpoint
trawling
overhanging predation
manmade
distorted proportions
of body
forms swift water
Heavily
silted turbidly
intolerant
dark markings
dissolved oxygen
comers of jaws
unusually long
at midwater
lips thick
rounded tips
small rivers
brackish habitats
dusky to black
chub gathering
course gravel
aborted courtship
off shore...

Black-Capped Carrion

2012-01-13T04:22:00.001-05:00

" Black-Capped Carrion "

by Suzán Jiván

Boldly
in the open
on poles
bright rufous
shoulders
juvenile
wing-
linings
thighs
streaked
down below
narrow
two-toned
scarce
and local
visible only
on display
puffed up
rapidly
drumming
wing
thumping
"cluck"
rusty
rump
sharp
"chik"
harsh
"check"
red-bellied
distended
upended
on head
chattering
rattle
ladder-
backed
white
patch
red cap
cactus
canyon
barred
in back
black-
capped
carrion
over-
lapping
black
bib
whining
wheezy,
"Deee deeer
Deee deeer
Deee deeer"...

With Projections Called Style

2012-01-11T09:39:00.001-05:00

" 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...

Openly Mined

2012-01-10T09:13:00.001-05:00

" Openly Mined "

by Suzán Jiván

Even more hauntingly formidable
as sapphire crystal
re-imagined as amethyst
in a pyramidal prism
of vitreous solvents of silica
simulating hydrologic cycles
of vital electrolytes in between Isles
correspondingly re-aligned
as a crystalline skyline
in hard type openly mined..

Giant Damselfly

2012-01-09T19:47:00.001-05:00

" Giant Damselfly "

by Suzán Jiván

Giant damselfly
fore-and-hind
wings in flight
plucking spiders
large eyes
nymphs climb
claspers
on abdomen
still grasping
stagnant
native lands
club tailed...

Assuming a Pose

2012-01-09T10:00:00.001-05:00

" Assuming a Pose "

by Suzán Jiván

Spit and polish
lavishly stocked
in an avante garde salon
of the remarkable
holding out for promise
presciently conjured
like the bygone
preoccupied
at the same time
identically in exile
with a quadruple
bow and jabot
among the oldest
ingeniously folded
in alternating rows
while assuming a pose
as a shaggy coat
grizzled gray
tapering at the base
speckled red standing erect
broad head digging claws
conspicuously moist and noisy
like a swooping swarm...

Ode to Prominence

2012-01-08T02:18:00.001-05:00

" Ode to Prominence "

by Suzán Jiván

Awkwardly akimbo
fully uninhibited
like the carnal
and demonic
insights
from scholars
overseeing
departments
of opalescent shards
from demolished
hospitals
for auteur prophets
ode to prominence
in neat arcs
sheepishly departed
like a rickety car
Roots and tubers
with tender shoots
dependent on lagoons
and a single white goose
singing, " Coor-a-loo, coor-a-loo "
while facing intruders
in communal roosts
eclipsing plumage
Powerfully built
distinctly ringed
nearly spotless
with springing
and climbing ability
Uniformly tawny
hindquarters
nocturnal forage
fox-like proportions
arid savanna
tall grass...

Eclipsing Plumage

2012-01-07T09:50:00.001-05:00

" Eclipsing Plumage "

by Suzán Jiván

Roots and tubers with tender shoots
dependent on lagoons
and a small white goose
singing, " Coor-a-loo, coor-a-loo "
while facing intruders
in courtship groups
with eclipsing plumage...

Fully Uninhibited

2012-01-06T18:21:00.001-05:00

" Fully Uninhibited "

by Suzán Jiván

Portraits with the Past Roaring

2012-01-06T12:13:00.000-05:00

" Portraits with the Past Roaring "

by Suzán Jiván

In the years before
invigorating
portraits with the past roaring
and squaring off
as thoroughly absorbing
with something more
converging on a corner
against forces
of mind-numbing conformity
never crossed...

A Shim-Sham Shimmy

2012-01-06T05:50:00.001-05:00

" A Shim-Sham Shimmy "

by Suzán Jiván

Within the cozy
confines
of the only
place of its kind
on the spine
of a sideline
swingin' on by
with the arrival
of a shim-sham-shimmy
as a real-time link
lovably scrappy
cohesively dramatic
cooing on the ground
head bowed, gray crown
conceal, surround...

Tongue-in-Cheek Measured in Feats

2012-01-05T18:10:00.000-05:00

"Tongue-in-Cheek Measured in Feats"

by Suzán Jiván

Gotten on
enough soapboxes
from grand to modest
and on and on
having gone
way too far
as a grande dame
with the peek-a-boo
quality of overarching
works in progress
while on the cusp of possibility
like tongue-in-cheek measured in feats
of captivity with limited experience
in idiosyncrasies coinciding uneasily
with the bottom line of domestic life...

A Quixotic Beginner in Intoxicants

2012-01-04T08:58:00.000-05:00

" A Quixotic Beginner in Intoxicants "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Other People's Secrets "

Other people's secrets
contrived with an insider's vibe
strikingly destabilized
getting wise to the absurdities of life
Ferociously nearby locked in tightly
on consecutive nights
with bloody fistfights
bestowed as a worldwide title
Imbibing like a life-sized wild drinker
in the bacchanals of the ' 60s
with an occasional martini
and an accented flip
of the ambitious
as exotic and unfamiliar
when and if
caught in the middle
with an interest
in an idealistic uplift
from a quixotic beginner
in intoxicants...

An Inventive Concoction

2012-01-03T20:54:00.002-05:00

" An Inventive Concoction "

by Suzán Jiván

for Lester Mobley

Performed on YouTube
as, " Nearly Nonstop "

Nearly nonstop
as an inventive concoction
of wit and charm
with subsequent mockery
Lost in revelry
unsettlingly skinny
like melons in spring
roughly touching
gently sinuous
Grey green laid singly
in ravines
satiny sheen hillside
faraway heights
Magical properties
buoyed by steam
bulging streams
scorched pieces
jagged peaks...

A Cleaved Face on a Basal Plane

2012-01-02T11:15:00.001-05:00

" A Cleaved Face on a Basal Plane "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Gently Appealing "

Gently appealing
less radical
than originally planned
with the bravura of magic
as a convoluted tale
like an iconoclastic pastor
as a quirky slacker
for the must-haves of blandness
practicing acting
as mild-mannered has-beens
forever on tap
for virtuosos of so-so bo bos
Enough to make it glow
at the base
of a cleaved face on a basal plane
lulled by a volcano in a conical shape
with an oozing crater
Greater and lesser yellowlegs
with whitish marks on dark upper parts
running then stopping
while nesting in a shallow depression
with bits of shells and pebbles
streakings on heads
barrings on breasts
underparts awash
low staccatos
spotted Godwits
distinctly larger...

Seeking Solace in an Armory

2012-01-01T10:48:00.001-05:00

" Seeking Solace in an Armory "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Cashed the Heart Jack "

Cashed the heart Jack
and played another heart
while thrusting a partner
in an interlocking plot
after leading the 13th heart
and seeking solace in an armory
after piercing the heart
with submarginal eyespots
on a red distal bar
sleepy orange
iridescent copper
territorial posture
wooded swamp
cobweb quarry
Masterpieces of Ming
hard to see entering the scene
hand scrolling smoky calligraphy
above the tundra and hummocks
fast becoming a summit
in great numbers at dusk
turning the back of his head to her
as a wood duck wings tucked under
grass or brush green speculum
tail tipped up, head pump, white clutch

A Blurb as an Explanation

2011-12-31T10:35:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-30T06:27:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-29T18:34:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-28T09:45:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-27T10:12:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-26T14:25:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-25T15:28:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-22T08:08:00.000-05:00

" 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

2011-12-20T11:32:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-19T11:16:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-18T13:54:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-17T11:37:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-13T03:09:00.000-05:00

" 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

2011-12-11T08:49:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-10T13:09:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-10T12:52:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-09T14:29:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-09T09:18:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-08T19:08:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-08T07:38:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-07T13:05:00.000-05:00

" 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

2011-12-07T06:11:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-06T09:10:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-04T05:56:00.000-05:00

" 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

2011-12-03T10:34:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-02T12:30:00.001-05:00

" 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

2011-12-01T11:28:00.001-05:00

" 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...

Otherwise Gaudy Good Times

2011-11-30T17:39:00.001-05:00

" Otherwise Gaudy Good Times "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Becoming Funny
and Weird and Sloppy "

Becoming funny and weird and sloppy
when thrown for a loop
by mishandled duties
in narrow green rooms
of the totally natural
emptied out
as paradigms
of unhappiness
like fried ants
in disparate
fairy tales
as fractured
characters
mismatched
casts
With the rhetorical tic
of a vulgar kitsch
dismissed
with the fragility
of unscientific rigor
while leaping
over limits
unflinchingly
like a prestigious
mistress
and pre-eminent
critic
of pictorial brilliance
in multiple disciplines
of gambler, swindler
and alchemist
With spotty knowledge
prompted
by the topmost gossip
of an inexorable prosecutor
in two parts
as an unorthodox memoir
In spicy cuisine, sweetie.
" Gosh Almighty! "
freely embracing
then running away
after a break up
with a jack-of-all-trades
then leaving the stage
along a fertile plain
of strap-shaped stream beds
within a broader range
of late middle age
Assuming a deep groove
of allocution
dramatically patterned
in red and black
reduced to powder
when mixed
with pungent flowers
of a musk mallow
And hiding out
in otherwise
gaudy good times
as indecipherable
uninspired writings
like a riot
of inedible wild
loosestrife
Then all is right
in story lines
like fireweed
in showy spikes
replete with sweet
buckeye...

Practically in One's Face

2011-11-30T09:04:00.000-05:00

" Practically in One's Face "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Almost Upon Us "

Almost upon us
in a partner's arms
all along while peeling off
the not-so-sure
in a guided tour
of enormous glory
unperformed
before an audience
in counterpoint
whittled down
to a compelling account
of calamitous snorts of scorn
first and foremost
with deniability of course
never coming across
as the mission falters
with impecunious support
in the forefront
Sustained by a rum-laced cake
practically in one's face
taken way too far
like much of a flock
with little regard
for the precious metals
of a talisman
from everywhere else
endlessly summoning up
turbulent bravado
in moral documents
quickly pivoting
with the dismissiveness
of unlikely innocents
in microchips
Insular and prickly
top-to-bottom
as erect fronds
from stout rootstock
rich in starch
pounded into flour
as scaly nut-grass
scattered
and difficult
to gather
as cattails
and bracken
Like bureaucratic
black magic
loutish and tacky
with a cockney accent
as a geriatric alligator
peevish and snappy
with an enigmatic laugh
shielding against cancer
as a bizarre idiosyncratic charm
with a fiercely common big heart...

Like Legendary Hellbenders

2011-11-29T16:24:00.001-05:00

" Like Legendary Hellbenders "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Propped Up on a Harpsichord "

Propped up on a harpsichord
willfully transformed
by a trenchant voice
with a bit of tabloid force
pulling the whole score off course
in a series of wall pieces
hanging from a rectangular peg rack
as a penchant for the abstract
on a red-and-white banner
in the manner of a patchwork
twisting against black
in a vacant chapel
Narrow, ragged and masked
with a miasmic camphor
Like extra hours
for taxidermied animals
stacked one upon the other
on their favorite basking log
as a fête gallante
of contemporary art
with greatly enlarged heads
as early nesters
Like legendary Hellbenders
facing hordes of predators
almost nothing with scores
to settle with anyone else
like a code of silence
on a slimed fishing line
As miners panning for gold
along a remote riverside
forming nuggets from dust
in carved cuttlefish bones
Steeped in local lore
along twin falls
tickled at the thought
of being carved
from pink marble
then being mocked
as facsimiles
of the flotsam
like rubber duckies
gone amok
on virtually any subject
if not for nothing
as a font wonk
with interlocking
camaraderie...

As Arias Earmarked

2011-11-25T12:49:00.001-05:00

" As Arias Earmarked "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " On a Vibraphone
on Saturday Night "

On a vibraphone
on Saturday Night
played on the same spot
as collaborative art
for concerts
of the not-so-hard
as arias earmarked
as melancholic
when composed
as stand-alone
fading drones
changing in exposure
in overtures
played over
the long-haul
as encores
of masterful joy
Usually green beneath
when freed from the mud
by using your feet
in extreme need
low and creeping
with an acrid biting quality
turning pink in spring
Unlike anything
which is to say
as stubby as a spadix
tapering
to a tight cluster
like an unpalatable
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
do not eat raw
or boiled on long
leaf stalks
with thick joints
as opposed
to a cautionary
dogbane
or common
nightshade
Or perhaps
as Bastard
Toadflax
attached singly
pale underneath
crowned by sepals
small, green and sweet
hairless and quickly branching
along sandy shores
toothless, or nearly so
with showy lobes
and deep groans
from lame jokes
becoming pigeon-holed
as a Texas Toad
burying itself
when threatened
as a consequence
of specimen collecting
with a sharp edge
on a cranial crest
creating a depression
returning to the terrestrial
with a poorly-defined
black stripe...

Free-Spirited Improvisation

2011-11-23T14:32:00.001-05:00

" Free-Spirited Improvisation "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " At the Nexus "

At the nexus of adoring the gawping
of a goofball hoop-skirted performance
in plain sight all along creaking
floorboards as test runs
come stumbling to an end
Envied and imitated
as the critically acclaimed
like throwaways
of the strangely unsustainable
Absorbed into the mainstream
by channeling lipstick and cockiness
implicitly followed by the love
of artistry with psycho-melodic sass
While hugging tightly with a mellifluous
yelp in falsetto headlong
behind closed doors
and coming across as nothing short
In all accordings graciously seen
above the waste with enablement
to perform the sacred
as free-spirited improvisation
in the upper ranges...

Bracing for Covert Saviors

2011-11-22T15:13:00.000-05:00

" Bracing for Covert Saviors "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Trading Blame "

Trading blame
and bracing for covert saviors
speciously revered
as ungodly ruling bodies
not pretty
but still unbeaten
On the big-name A-list
after a brazen raid
on and off stage
without the restraints
of a plaything
Whizzing at high speed
during a lifelong trip at sea
with the familiar sitcomish shtick
of nibbling on chips
as a cartoonish patrician
in response to a mêlange
of mixed feelings
from shredded egos
an swapped barbs
Rambling on
while name dropping
like blarney for a sexpot
with skeletal parts
under binoculars
irregardless
Commandingly in charge
and hence harmless
after cashing a last heart
discarding a diamond
from the dummy
running clubs
with a high trump
and declared ruffs
as luxury-loving
under discussion
Finding a comfort
in the early
incontrovertible
inertness
of someone
else's words
in a close-
mouthed world
Plotting to rebuild
after bringing
down the house
without boundaries
like shooting stars
re-enacted as blasts
with little chance
of ravaging impact
when slammed
into taking action
as an unprecedented
show of power
in a touchdown
Being coddled
above and beyond
with cultural prominence
like landmarks as said parts
of artistry venturing
onto an over-
hanging branch
with an intimate scale
and carefree abandon...

Tending to Fix the Bitter

2011-11-21T14:52:00.000-05:00

" Tending to Fix the Bitter "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Stylistically Divergent "

Stylistically divergent
urban and rural
either yellowish or purplish
tending to fix the bitter
in just over a minute
with wild ginger
Above ground with solitary
flowers of brown
supported between stout
wooly stalks bared in pairs
Bundled up in popular culture
trimmed in fur opposed to open roads
with hips held on the bush
through winter in bristly thickets
covered with sticky reddish hairs
in sandy pastures
Coarse species forming dense clumps
of conspicuously wrinkled leaves
large, deep rose to white
in survival along dry
open roadsides
Large arching grey-green
stout and downy
with unopened flowers
lacking milky sap upland...

Unfamiliar Dimensions

2011-11-20T12:58:00.001-05:00

" Unfamiliar Dimensions "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Longtime Confidant "

A longtime confidant of probably not
following the normal standards
and demographics as blonde
and bubbly even when saying
dark things triumphantly
by setting up punchlines like, "um"
Then goosing the crowd
by shouting out, " Get Out! "
after a catty sigh like longtime
undying bookings on, " Tonight "
Blissfully like a kind of salad
made famous by Julia Child
while getting blubbery
from Monopoly money
As anonymous artisans
wearing conical
likenesses to carved
bony objects
steeped in red
across a predatory marital bed
stretched across a frenzied center
of cryogenic stealth
like a naysaying mindset
As a common result early in its run
sometimes funny, sometimes suffering
coming to life at dusk
with an audible stillness
and a look of innocence
in a payola figure
Almost in its original form
seen by many many more
as a small comfort
exerpted from a longer version
with a close-up showing
a handful of loans
nailed in only two takes
late into middle age
Especially legendary
like a stupefying expression
spoken with a biting gesture
like a bug-eyed bonehead
resembling a walrus-tusked chessman
in a Medieval collection with no contest
Revelling in unfamiliar dimensions
with toothpicks and bits of string
glimpsing the unspecific
in an exhibition
scrapped as a catalog
too daunting to print
given the obvious
as impossible...

A Burgeoning Ethos

2011-11-20T06:45:00.001-05:00

" A Burgeoning Ethos "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " In Some Essential Way "

In some essential way
endangered and underplayed
running off stage
posturing with self-conscious
intolerance and wobbly
sabotage in a dodgy deal
Overstuffed and underedited
as a hardly fitting end
intermittently wasted
and content to hang
with a cagy mate
forlornly drained
and wiped out painfully
In a low-wattage drama
masked with algae
as flattened captives
serrated toward the back
like a familiar, " snapper "
in a flask-shaped cavity
Within a burgeoning ethos
of erotic freedom
burrowing with front feet
around the margins of ponds
bound with goldenrod
fringed prominently
with a pink calyx
sweetened to taste...

New-Fangled Shrewdness

2011-11-19T17:05:00.000-05:00

" New-Fangled Shrewdness "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Acute and Ardent "

Acute and ardent
supposed to have shown
new-fanged shrewdness
becoming pretty sure of grandeur
by unfurling under a curl
and turning furiously
into judge and jury for rulings
on innocence and guilt
As overlapping granular scales
with dark triangular patches
some black, some blue
like cross bands in arid
and semi-arid lands
with distinctly creviced females
and blandly barred bars
Clearly marked as clutches
in clump grass in sunny
woodlands and sandy
flats shy and wary
with splotches and spots
between femoral pores
found foraging in the morning
eyes paling in the damp...

Sirens and Moles

2011-11-17T17:41:00.001-05:00

" Sirens and Moles "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Northern Temperate Zones "

Northern temperate zones
like sirens and moles
with distinct body regions
capped with packets of sperm
displayed in wide-ranging
layers of jellylike eggs
lost during transformation
yelping when captured
and squirming vigorously
when handled
Nestling in winter waiting for spring
in sheltered cavities emitting clicks
after wrestling in opportunistic litter
threatened by red underbellies
and swelling vents in defense December through May cave
dwelling lined with fleshy projections
on stream beds of detritus poorly known as predacious to incubating eggs tipped with black horny layers
Swept into the water by heavy rains
bypassing the tadpole stage
of yellowish flecks
over clear heads and necks
along with conspicuous tympanums
of warm moist skin hatching
into tail-wagging species
in swiftly flowing streams
Erupting like bubbles in tar pits
of hardship and foul-mouthed grit
given heady physicality
like gliding down an 80-foot wave
while dilating the entire length...