Doubt

" Doubt "

by Suzán Jiván

With the benefit of the doubt
in a crisis of confidence
evaluating frightening aid
and subsequent evacuation
peacekeepers say
killings were taking place-
but the failure came
from poor communication.

Tolerated

" Tolerated "

by Suzán Jiván

Living high under $100.00
if possible with low-end
choices as a welome sign
not just tolerated at the top.

Impeccably

" Umpeccably "

by Suzán Jiván

Across the stage
of improvisation
breezily surveying
an overhead saying
of a famously-
strange place
gradually being
manipulated
under the spell
of an epic
all-time
best-selling
conduction
of memory
to an extra-
ordinary
extent
revelling
in the
impeccably
unforgettable.

Authenticity

" Authenticity "

by Suzán Jiván

A long-suffering strong vision
standing completely still
with the authenticity
of raised issues
and the simple craving
for holding a gaze.

Exaggerated

" Exaggerated "

by Suzán Jiván

Soon after the new
also included
a point of view
suiting the mood
of a feel-good
musical review
meticulously parodied
as endlessly playing
exaggerated rage.

Corrosive

" Corrosive "

by Suzán Jiván

Provocative
confused and confusing
probing undertows
of inexplicably-audible
coursing waters
eroding corrosive echoes.

Coming

" Coming "

by Suzán Jiván

Coming of age
in an apparent
one-night stand
as if out of nowhere
in a critically beloved
second feature
with a run of bad luck
from an absent-minded hum.

Encapsulation

" Encapsulation "

by Suzán Jiván

Vengeful and profane
taped conversations
stunned even a state
in a neat encapsulation
of the main problem facing
the scrupulously tasteful.

Widespread

" Widespread "

by Suzán Jiván

Holding another ultra-safe
that had now become
acceptable as fail-safe
while federal agents
demand widespread DNA
deserving a great deal of praise
if not in a heroic way.

Complicit

" Complicit "

by Suzán Jiván

With zero yields
schemed inquiries
with details unsealed
by baton- wielding
complicit colleagues
drive a hard bargain
tantamount to coming out
and hunkering down.

Realized

" Realized "

by Suzán Jiván

Meticulously realized
in a meditative calm
with a few good stomps
between madness and genius
with elaborate beginnings
and the heart remaining as a constant.

Ephemera

" Ephemera "

by Suzán Jiván

Cacophonous
sonic landscape
filled with
splendid
ephemera
tiptoeing
overhead.

Circuitous

" Circuitous "

by Suzán Jiván

Correct poses
and posturings
of the past
feeling like glass
enormous
and flawless
in a circuitous
gut-churning world.

Realization

" Realization"

by Suzán Jiván

Indistinct markings
calibrated for aging
with arms raised
as the most dangerous
road not taken
in a cursively
acerbic realization.

Perimeter

" Perimeter "

by Suzán Jiván

Singing in a capella
as the elder dancers enter
with young women as witnesses
on the perimeter circling the minimal.

Mastermind

" Mastermind "

by Suzán Jiván

In hard times
a mastermind
is a liason to spies
for the previously
under-recognized
and uncompromisingly-
denied factions tied
to an oversight.

Anguish

" Anguish "

by Suzán Jiván

The mythical hunter
soon- to-be-cut
taking turns
singing solo
all in a range
sweet and gentle
even when
the subject
to be covered
is injustice.

Fluffy

" Fluffy "

by Suzán Jiván

Fluffy white confetti
already piled up
acting like
fellow sufferers
with more
along the way
after grabbing
big gobs
and flinging
them skyward
despite world-wide
giggles and sighs.

Summoned

" Summoned "

by Suzán Jiván

Crippled industry
weighing options
abruptly summoned
by government
seemingly patched up
soon thereafter.

Chromatic

" Chromatic "

by Suzán Jiván

A glossy black splat
turning space
into a walk-in cat's cradle
in an entirely chromatic
high-keyed and brash
snaking orange
with green bands.

Chiseled

" Chiseled "

by Suzán Jiván

Descended to the present
thought to represent
a kind of limestone
with crushed shells
continually delivering
deliberate inscriptions
emphatically chiseled.

Idealized

" Idealized "

by Suzán Jiván

An idealized head
with idiosyncratic aspects
particularly unpredictable
important first editions
of seminal analytical text.

Composite

" Composite "

by Suzán Jiván

Linguistic catharsis
subtler textual letters
ever-witty stick figures
in blurry composite images
combined with crisp calligraphy
and hefty bilingual antiquity.

Gravity

" Gravity "

by Suzán Jiván

Under pressures
of time and space
tampering with gravity
at once gimmicky
with awesome complexity
as overblown grotesques
lose the thread of identity.

Ovation

" Ovation "

by Suzán Jiván

The earliest surviving happy surprise
filling the gap of an abstract man
creating a two-way relationship
worth a standing ovation.

Five-and-Dimes

" Five-and-Dimes "

by Suzán Jiván

Hard economic times
are like old time five-and-dimes
both newly restored and reinstalled
where price tags are the point
for invaluable wall drawings
hung in recent exhibitions
of past acquisitions.

Capture

" Capture "

by Suzán Jiván

Capture the all-inclusive
escape from real-life woes
in sales of season passes
with some strategic planning
for craggy adrenaline-charged
challenges of modern art.

Ideas

" Ideas "

by Suzán Jiván

Lying mostly out of sight
in an unmistakable blaze
lighted by big ideas
looking organic and all embracing
duplicating what was in place
as an all-illuminating phrase,
" anyone-can-make-it ".

Mimicry

" Mimicry "

by Suzán Jiván

Clever mimicry
can hardly be said
as equally credible
to the resemblance
of verve with integrity
in duplicate ringside seats
for ambition and anxiety.

Twinkle Twinkle

" Twinkle Twinkle "

by Suzán Jiván

It's twinkle twinkle
on the big screen
in a face-off between
armchair-to-armchair sparring
of the presidentially pardoned
for sparkling and jingling jackpots.

Emerging

" Emerging "

by Suzán Jiván

An emerging sketch
pointing a finger directly
at the preliminary evidence
of growing pessimism
for an urgent rescue
facing a hard sell.

Traced

" Traced "

by Suzán Jiván

Traced to two
unearthed
contested
welcomes
kept at
the forefront
for postwar
shootouts
in lobbies
and corridors.

Loss

" Loss "

by Suzán Jiván

In a mix of content and continuity
isolated by a square of harsh light
in a tortuous crawl of memories lost
and rigid limbs stiffly scissoring the air.

Infiltration

" Infiltration "

by Suzán Jiván

Unable to prevent an infiltration
by shape-changing ratings
seized by immigration
dating to 3000 bc
in a museum definitely seen
as an extraterrestrial threat
alive with history lessons.

Departed

" Departed "

by Suzán Jiván

In a remake
of a short-
lived comedy
scheduled
to start
in March
as a long-
time cor-
respondent
soon de-
parted
with less
confidence
in the
homicide
department.

Slightly

" Slightly "

by Suzán Jiván

Slightly off
the beaten path
with melodramatic
emotions evoked
in a bitter coda
as someone
rowed a boat
with an airline
hostess in
another sign
of the declining.

Bash

" Bash "

by Suzán Jiván

A bash with sundance
tilting toward films for a future
with roots in foreign submissions
up slightly from freakish winds
pushing up the high tide line.

Notions

" Notions "

by Suzán Jiván

Months ahead
leading up
inseparable from
what can be done
magnificently enough
with old notions
of years ago.

Lolling

" Lolling "

by Suzán Jiván

Far from hermetic
lolling on aptly-
shabby sofas
with microtonal
wabbles and tiny
trilling steps
in confessional
cross-dressing texts.

Fluttering

" Fluttering "

by Suzán Jiván

Fluttering purposely
feeling immediate
in delirious freeform
with newfound visibilty
along a quivering grid
of deliberate interests.

Adjuncts

" Adjuncts "

by Suzán Jiván

Not uncommon
masquerades
as cosmopolitan
adjuncts to galactica
with a catholic grasp
as a center of gravity.

Swirl

" Swirl "

by Suzán Jiván

It's pretty clear
treacherous
patches
of transition
add passion
shake well
as a cluster
of subcults
in a multi-
cultural
swirl.

Raging

" Raging "

by Suzán Jiván

No patience for posing
a hard or fast rule
more than a little awkward
during political storms
raging under lofty ceilings.

Cataclysm

" Cataclysm "

by Suzán Jiván

Strategy shifting
challenging
the constant
balancing act
of finding
tantalizing hints
for life lying within
the cataclysm
from a swath
of bedrock.

Remainder

" Remainder "

by Suzán Jiván

On any ordinary day
economies officially sank
adding grim punctuation
reflecting profit taking
and forbidding terrain
outpacing the remainder.

Epic

" Epic "

by Suzán Jiván

Could quibble
about a decision
in six figures
with dynamic give
and exceptional delicacy
showing the elegantly
opposing angle
of the head
in effortless
ebullience
retaining the clarity
of the neck
as no coincidence
in a magnanimous epic
of romantic gallantry.

Recurring

" Recurring "

by Suzán Jiván

A recurring presence
keenly sensitive
longtime friend
loose and frenetic
timeless realm
of love duets.

Barbed

" Barbed "

by Suzán Jiván

Triggering
deep unease
even bleaker
in a dying breed
full of degrees
barbed and
heat seeking.

Plum

" Plum "

by Suzán Jiván

Once the chummiest club
with star-struck moxie
a blizzard whirls above
paradise is discovered
within a sugar plum.

Scent

" Scent "

by Suzán Jiván

The scent
of incense
in response
to terror
likely
to disperse
again
in pungent
agendas
of divergent
threats.