by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Highflying and far-fetched
barreling headlong
into venerable gore
after dutifully attending
to the day-to-day minutiae
of a stale master plan
for the dormant brand
of the slightly scary
all the while
being dotted by
a white fungi
with idiot lights.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Attracting headlines
in a firing line
calling the shots
by taking snapshots
that capture
the scary details
of visceral dares.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Only half under-
standable and susceptible
to damage after earning a master's
in a technically demanding
and equally gleaming solidity
with the coloristic ingenuity
of an intrepid destiny.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Walking to and fro
from one stage
to another
with exta-
ordinary layers
revealing themselves
in new ways
balancing
without stiffness
stepping out
with predictability
ultimately returning
with serendipity.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Going back to scrambling
straight down a diagonal line
impersonal and abstract
interconnected by shredded
meshes of memory
and oxidized steely lives.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
A shotblocker
as shooting guard
on a grizzled roster
essentially promising
to be alarming
at increasing speeds
no longer allowing teetering
on weakening trajectories.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Still livin'
with an alarmin'
noggin in Nam
reimaginin'
the panic
of battle
as a constant
hard on
while
manically
twangin'
a flaccid
wang.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Giddy with victory
seeing history
as a grid
of dissonance
crisscrossed
with eyesores
sprawled across
uncharted hot spots
of art flipped back on.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Always supposing to erase all traces
of perfectly straight faces
with freak show displays
looking like maniacal imitations
of remade big names.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
The magic
and the actuality
of an exotically
paradoxical marathon
with the unfamiliarity
of an anonymous snapshot
and the indecipherability
of a dreamlike still life.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
All but visibly wincing
from the prickly splinter
of unvarnished
inner vision invariably
ending with the wretchedness
of spontaneous expression
dressed and belted.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
At a brisk pace
but hardly
getting along
open mouthed
and close
to the hour
worrying about
a squirting flower
or a dribble glass
saying, " Hurray for me! "
as a rear end, anatomically.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Disappointed
by the sparseness
of memorable moments
in the body of a bold widow
after an ever-so-slightly
formulaic makeover
was taken over
by calamitous imitators
over the decades.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Perpetual twilight
despite hefty silhouettes
against prescient stencils
of fresh sentiment.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Dimly lit
smooth skin
quivering clit
contraposto stance
hard and fast.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Between the funky
and the slick
a smartly sturdy
strict tradition
of neither realistic
nor naïve
unmoored certainty.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Making a statement
deploying dramatically
secular slapping
and emphatically
fervent clapping
into the duality
of boogaloos
and bugaboos.
by Suzán Jiván
for Stanislaus Dubowski
Favoring concentrated forays
and richly undulating portrayals
in jangly charismatic ballads
radiating amorous ardor
with a quavering juxtaposed twang.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Slipping through
fictionalized fissures
still worth listening
to the lightness
of reconciled desire
and the hapless tragedy
of weirdly-detached
prettified seething
typifying bone-
crushing bereavement.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Thrillingly rich
epochal effigies
exhaustingly jokey
and stunningly funny
rollicking splendidly
smack in the middle
of a newly-scripted
mélange of tadas.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Without a second thought
inordinately stalking
a torrid predatory courtship
with the aura
of a lion's paw
climactically clawing
in an aphasic orgiastic haze.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Self-evident timelessness
with vestiges of torment
scrubbed with textural laments
deftly cleansed by climactic
perspectives with heart and heft.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Gaining traction with an eclectic cast
comfortably close in their rolls
of rarely-seen fantasies
conjuring up inestimable recklessness
from a bootstrap flashback
in an amatory comeback.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank on Veteran's Day
In a halting monotone
awakening to see
narrowing identities
shrinking into a squeaky-
voiced pixie uncannily
lifelike with real sweetness
and sublimity empathetically
attempting to redeem
a veteran's wartime drear
with a feckless eclecticism.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
After years of scouring
rented out downtown
hangouts feeling cowed
in uptown townhouses
showcasing highlighted
holdings appropriated
from home town ghost towns.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Throbbing, blipping and whistling
while striving to be free thinking
and feisty despite ethnicity
and cinematic tricks
tediously dragging out
rattling sound tracks
intoned in ignoble notions
of halting monotones.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Reconciling with divine delights
panting in orgasmic finales
as seen in lithe suites
of climactic lipreading.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Pretty much yanked up
into kinds of gruff couplings
suffering from impulsive
disruptions tallying up
understudies lining up
to play butting love.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Clearly rivetted by the indiscriminate
divisions on a medicine dropper
officially honored by the milliliter marks
on the picked locks of hip-hops.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
In the works over and over again
with legs bent bouncing and tripping
into a visually interesting split
but never literally
banded together
inwardly and outwardly
still sticking it out.
by Suzán Jivân
for Frank
Tipped into a split-
legged arabesque
lacking the backup
rooted in the past
of a charismatic man
drawn in the abstract
patterns and angles
of a manic backdrop
unstintingly twisting
and calamitously stamping.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Shattering a looking glass
scattering the sharp shards
of a bard's terse reversal
into a perverse world
of vestigal verses.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
A minuet between predators
with ruthless preludes
of frost-bitten blue
played with nerve-
fraying catch phrases
flaring into blaring refrains.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
In a snarky monologue
of matter-of-factly
defaced complacency
containing nerve-fraying
self-flagellating phrases
begrudgingly tallied
with the dilly-dallying
and campy dalliances
of a marred avant-garde.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
All too mortal
bluntly sporting
blood drawing
with gory daubs
of recalled war
scored across
taught canvases
of carnal taunts.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Devoted to microtonal
concoctions of modestly-
interlocking thingamabobs
intrinsically intermixing
with minimalistical thingamajigs
into largely-forbidden
mystical libidinous trysts.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
A sliver of time
across an empire
humbly defending
reversing a trend
of inexorable
connections
between pre-
paredness
and pan-
demics
in perpetual
suspension.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Fully intact after
an emphatic absence
gathers an immediate standing
as stretched heads
are percussively struck
above steel lugs
and taught strings
are plucked
pizzicato
strung with gut.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Fundamentally drawn
with a chilly sense
and a long-checkered
stupefying self more or less
ecclectically gesturing
with yesterday's tempo.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Easier
on the eyes
as a must-see devotee
with the particular
gauzy genius
of direct experience
to the letter
open ended.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
No longer indivisible
with thick descriptions
culminating in redemptive
full dress and minutely
controlled muscular
movements through
a series of hums and clucks
succumbing to puzzlement
instead of a lover's wonder.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Coaxing a single tone
without a lot of poetry
yet having to let go
giving up control
and reapproaching
solo mode denoting
pedagogical moments.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
In a temporary space
with a narrow passageway
for big names being overtaken
by cravings for change
with slapdash determination
in an age of walking off stage.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Never truly wavering
after a jarring feeling
accidentally trafficking
in weird and nasty
nonrock sentimentality
revealing flashbacked
calendars hardly imagined.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Confessing to trepidation
feeling authentically messy
and beside myself
with sideward glances
toward a strained romance
seemingly collapsing
with percussive chants
after a traumatic past
and an unmistakable ache
for torrid romantic candor.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Buzzing through
seizing on while playing on
in electro-pop honky-tonks
singing gobs of backup harmonies
still grappling with grief and leaning
toward cautious pauses after grizzled
kiss-offs with raw hoary voices.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Buttressing an ally
insisting on anonymity
and shrouded in a strategy
that's up for grabs
with disruptive subplots
and charged particles
kept close to the vest.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
A master's touch
summoning up
illusory love
with ominous
Rorschach blots
seen as blood drops
from the cocking
of a gun
and the tripping
of a trigger.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Self portraits
as rewards
secreted away
simply framed
2 years late
amorphous
boulders in gray
containing
infinite layers.
by Suzán Jiván
for Frank
Making almost no sense
feeling stone-cold sober
while being exposed
to eye-opening carnal delights
staring mesmerizingly wide-eyed
held up by deep denial
and grievous disbelief.
