Beyond

" Beyond "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Even in quieter moments
beyond the obvious
emotions and bodies
of the highest caliber
of mime wiping
lips after drinking.

Played

" Played "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Played with twitchy sensitivity
and libidinous insecure shivers
of the undeniably gifted
remaining unstintingly still.

Reigning

" Reigning "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Moving in an arc
from light to dark
like a short-lived star
of emotional honesty
resisting reigning deities.

Femininity

" Femininity "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Strong colors inevitably bring to mind
trying to justify findings
of unquestionably acquired
expressions of intrepid femininity
as glamourous to some
and schmaltzy to others.

Weighted

" Weighted "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Simplifying flattening
weighted toward the latter
hinting at self-parody
with antic abstraction
quavering yodeling
in fear of the known
held up on an elbow.

Appearing

" Appearing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Appearing slightly off in proportion
as an indistinct darkening figure
with unflappable comparisons
to an outlandish scattering around
of good-humored individual ingenuity.

Terrain

" Terrain "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Terrain then, and since then,
always became a little hallucinated
along a metaphorical plain
well worth teasing out as an all-
encompassing monumentality.

Steeped

" Steeped "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Steeped in academia
insisting on nonlethal
enlarged copies
of old snapshots
without a shadow
of doubt leaving out
falling short and hard
to pin down.

Stripped

" Stripped "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

An artificially stripped down place
of amorphous shapes
and aromatic sacks
slung over the backs
of grovelling scavengers.

Remaining

" Remaining "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Sequentially remaining
largely beyond the scream
with fittingly pigeonholed labeling
appropriately resonating
in typically avian echo chambers.

Overturned

" Overturned "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Remotely approaching
feeling truly alone
while lingering
indistinguishingly
with underlying denial
and overturned dearth.

Alternating Ways

" Alternating Ways "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Alternating ways of being
cataloged by vulnerabilities
of both blatant and latent traits.

Interludes

" Interludes "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Alluringly large
implicitly marked
harmonically rich
contrasting instruments
imbued with interludes.

Leading

" Leading "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Leading to an in vitro view
of the mutually exclusive
multiplied revival of eight of the new.

Getaway

" Getaway "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Heading this way
going that way
making the case
for a fabled getaway.

Garbling

" Garbling "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Blurry distinctions
neither acknowledging
nor bothering with singsongy charm
to drowning out garbling monologues.

Recovery Victory

" Recovery Victory "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Measuring a victory quick and sweet
firstly big briefly seized on the eve
of measured congressional questions
with a growing sense of seige
exhibited by splaying fingers.

Conspicuous

" Conspicuous "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Conspicuous consumption
succumbs to pummeling
from disrupted begrudging
governments in conjuction
with abruptly plunging incomes.

Downturn

" Downturn "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Let go in a memo
thousands announced
with common ground
no matter how
down in the mouth.

Scant

" Scant "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Scant detail
in a plan
after vast
revamping
of the past.

Realign

" Realign "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

High-pitched
rickety ambivalence
keeping brutal time
clanging on cymbals wildly
while trying to realign
with decisiveness.

Chagrin

" Chagrin "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The bedrock of modern chagrin
dizzyingly visceral fiscal stimulus
of mythical synthesis deliberately
dispensed to colleagues and friends
watching from guarded parapets.

Divisive

" Divisive "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Spoken in alarming tones
sounding extremely close
to wiping out while violently vying
toward striking a divisive compromise.

Passageway

" Passageway "

by Suzán Jivan

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Along a passageway
demanding its place
in the face of only one way
toe tapping madly backstage.

Derision

" Derision "

by Suzán Jiván

Dwindling emissions
from ashy embers
rekindle complicity
with crackling derision.

Unabashed

" Unabashed "

by Suzán Jiván

Striking a nostalgic theme
on a flat screen
for the trafficking of nattering
in an unabashed romance.

Hardly

" Hardly "

by Suzán Jiván

Hardly doctrinaire
with little grasp of fairy tales
written with entrancing enchantment collapsing as another began
rewritten as a belly-laughing classic.

Enthralling

" Enthralling "

by Suzán Jiván

Willing to share
a sunny upstairs
with the actual
and the imaginery
warm and attractive
enthralling oddballs
with much to absorb
in the haunting
and predatory explored
along with a rasping voice.

Forever

" Forever "

by Suzán Jiván

Forever stuck
at square one
in a blunt reductive
unlike a bubbly one
blowing stuff up.

Still Lifting

" Still Lifting "

by Suzán Jiván

Still lifting the chill
along lists of fiscal stimulus
for breadwinners and caregivers
passed over and dug in.

Rendering

" Rendering "

by Suzán Jiván

A barely-legible rendering
affixed to an exposed stretcher
accented with the nearly-invisible
essence of grievous sentiment.

Scavengings

" Scavengings "

by Suzán Jiván

A faded fragment of a fresco
in a cavernous space
varying greatly
veering inbetween
sporadic scavengings
from the streets
and evenly-spaced
white pearl beads.

Wordless

" Wordless "

by Suzán Jiván

Wordless pictures
heard in full flower
with a furrowed brow
through a fleet, clean finale.

Hiding

" Hiding "

by Suzán Jiván

Hiding in
plain sight
often times
in widely-
held writings
disguised
by unen-
lightening
titles.

Eerie Dignity

" Eerie Dignity "

by Suzán Jiván

It seems something green
forms an eerie dignity
with blazing honesty
in a gee-whiz sincerity.

Loping

" Loping "

by Suzán Jiván

Revealing and nerve-rattling
in a trance of emotional agitation
impossible to look away
from a freckle-faced
loping cadence of salvation.

Measure by Measure

" Measure by Measure "

by Suzán Jiván

Ultimately gentle
ephemeral exerpts
measure by measure
in memorable revery
begun as a benefit event
seen as a spreading idea.

Maligned

" Maligned "

by Suzán Jiván

Seemingly maligned
by sharp punch lines
and a harsh borage
of pedagogical staccatos
in a tersely turbulent dirge.

Recovery

" Recovery "

by Suzán Jiván

Appealingly transparent
comparatively freewheeling
upper reaches of fiscal clarity
incrementally spelled out
after being spilled out
of a recovery package.

Trading

" Trading "

by Suzán Jiván

A particular pairing hitting it off
with especially telling integrity
trading lush lacy phrases
with crisply articulated
unnatural magnification of octaves.

Exceptions

" Exceptions "

by Suzán Jiván

Exceptions
that went
unmentioned
not formally
registered
as endless
tendencies
to sweat
in a widespread
fiscal sense.

Offset

" Offset "

by Suzán Jiván

Closely relected
emotional edges
offset
by feistier than ever
jagged introspection.

Untouched

" Untouched "

by Suzán Jiván

Oddly untouched
by an aristocratic
sense of detachment
obliging a new master
with unfettered
rough-and-tumble
independents.

Scenarios

" Scenarios "

by Suzán Jiván

Labels were missing
after killing time
and suffering through
already blown
embodied rolls
after the show
of scenarios.

Plotless

" Plotless "

by Suzán Jiván

The rhyme and reason
of spinning yarns
of make believe
ends up being
portrayed
as a full-length
plotless ballet
of public rituals
for private pain.

Overviews

" Overviews "

by Suzán Jiván

No single tried-and-true
stringent fiscal stimulus
will adequately tackle
every overlapping challenge
still strewn with overviews.

Reconsider

" Reconsider "

by Suzán Jiván

Reconsider being here
where it's hard to think
with the collective tremor
of breathtaking stealth.

Lengthening

" Lengthening "

by Suzán Jiván

Inherent drama
end over end
with fresh gestures
lingering over
lengthening
daily daisy chains.

Flanking

" Flanking "

by Suzán Jiván

Relatively
little seen
while quietly
scrambling
and trying
to do right
flanking
a great
staircase.

Understated

" Understated "

by Suzán Jiván

A few years ahead
of making inroads
towards a big break
resulting in a far-
ranging break-
through from under-
stated amazement.