The Brunt

" The Brunt "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Luminous singing
hurtling leaps
crashing to knees
breast beating
bearing the brunt
of blunt tell-all love.

Postshow

" Postshow "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A postshow toast
from a hidden holster
menacing
an invisible foe
drawn
on the sidewalk
with chaulk.

Overall Falloff

" Overall Falloff "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

An overall falloff
roiling as face-offs
with nothing-wrong longings
in the cramped quarters of shortfalls.

Contortions

" Contortions "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

A tour de force
about three quarters
following mourning
stressing the contortions
of a purgatorial gaping maw.

Just Before Mourning

" Just Before Mourning "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Deeply
mannered
at a glance
cores
corridors
and carnivores
all but inexhaustible
just before mourning.

Far Flung

" Far Flung "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Rare
far-flung
treasures
bound to-
gether
to high
heaven
as an
experi-
mental
connection.

Flat Lipped

" Flat Lipped "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Gathering
to dazzle
snapped-up
extravaganzas
wrapped
in flat-lipped
pale glass.

Fragmentation

" Fragmentation "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Be-
wildering
miniature
visions
unbound
by frag-
mentation
without
the aid
of lament-
ation
in iso-
lation.

Robed in Silk

" Robed in Silk "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Prized
from the get-go
on her own
in the midst
of the missed
robed in silk.

Setting Trick

" Setting Trick "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

A parlor trick
in its entirety
intuitively moving
twirling
illuminated hoops
to Gypsy tunes
winning
the dummy's king
as the setting trick
pulled back
from the cliff.

Long Held

" Long Held "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Frail aspirations
to happiness
taking offense
sidestepped
tight and tender
misled
long held.

Overdue

" Overdue "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Tougher and smaller
long overdue
chattering about
as to whether
something
more metal
will help
end all
be all.

Little Room

" Little Room"

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

A seldom-heard
early work
tiptoed through
with little room
for nuance
torches or pitchforks
as counterpoint
to makeshift
prestigious bits.

Contested Remembrances

" Contested Remembrances "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Commanding attention
overwhelmingly tense
compressing cherished comments
into contested remembrances.

Tethered

" Tethered "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

" Tethered "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Tethered without question
indelibly entrenched
in measured sequences
of collusive minutiae
threatening to undo
lucid solutions.

All for One

" All for One "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Near-death
experience
reconfiguring
stereotypical
servility
reordering
"one-for-all"
into "all-for-one".

Never Once

" Never Once "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Just one
of several numbers
recurring
during the recovery
of an understudy
never once
scarcely subtle.

Embodying

" Embodying "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

With a readerly
knack for imaginative
bayou-like scenes
versus digs in Giza
with the downside
of online enshrinement
seeming like downtown ethos
pre-packaged for collective viewing
by embodying mob rule.

Foiling

" Foiling "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Inadvertently
foiling a raunchy
polymorphous cold war
as a bedtime story
with deconstructed text
and nonsensical bar nones
idiosyncratically flailing
in theatrical canons.

Obliterated

" Obliterated "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Obliterating meaning
intermittently funny
but mostly ringing
as a big, fat nothing
spurting gory arcs
against a comic backdrop
as a heady splash
blunted by screw-ups
with the panache
of an outcast.

Scrawling

" Scrawling "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Surprisingly
loosey-goosey
and insouciant
after experiencing
highly-stylized
hyperviolence
as seen as
silhouetted
figures in the fog
of religiosity
read
with the graphic simplicity
of scrawling graffiti.

Paying Heed

" Paying Heed "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

In seperate
incidents
involving
phishing
with frantic
scribbling
stricken
by sur-
reptitious
cencorship
paying heed
to a scene
of victims
writhing
in the streets
of a distant
dream offering
harried summaries.

Confines

" Confines "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Under scrutiny
in a rebuke
fixing
an anxious gaze
stepping briskly
being frisked
finding bias
laughing politely
within the confines
of both sides
of the aisle.

Inexhaustibly Dauntless

" Inexhaustibly Dauntless "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Inexhaustibly dauntless
and ananchronistically modern
reflecting calmy
after an apparent end
to the shifting of direction
as a steady stream
of kinesthetic duets
distinguishes itself nonetheless.

Long Been

" Long Been "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Long been
an acknowledgement
of an alledgedly-modest
lethality coming from lumping
a bulked-up clamor for random
acts with the haplessness
of disparate facts.

Otherwise

" Otherwise "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Figuring out
a surprising amount
by writing about fallout
outnumbered
by a very slight
fusion with otherwise.

Decrypted

" Decrypted "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Not yet decrypted
driven into relent-
less fits
on the condition
of anonymity
not yet
an anomaly
but a harbinger
of a crackling
galloping beat.

Body English

" Body English "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Laid bare
running into headwinds
and the gravity shifts
from swift decisions
risking restrictive
weighings in
due to illness
along with
a little bit
of body English.

Smash 'n' Grab

" Smash 'n' Grab "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Back 'n' forth
reaching across
null 'n' void
with smash 'n' grab
simultaneous pairs.

To Date

" To Date "

by Suzán Jiván

To date
only a small fraction
have cut hearsay gradually
mindful of lapses
in tackling harmful chitchat
rallying a faction
to take action
as a backstage advance
of an irrational chance
for a passionate
late stage romance
in the aftermath.

A Deft Set Up

" A Deft Set Up "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Once upon a time
a kind
of critical mass
passed
as the pleasure
of chance
uncovering lust
without let up
seemingly coming
as a gentle touch
but
as biting as a cut up
with the longing
for love
as a deft set up.

Fanatically Unromantic

" Fanatically Unromantic "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Special effects
get even better
in narrative tensions
as fanatically unromantic
overlapping lethal traps
made up of bent branches
simultaneously capture asylum status.

Mashed-Up

" Mashed-Up "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

A refocused mashed-up approach
segueing into mentions made
both live and faked
of asylum seeking
in an unnamed
dark place
coming
into
play.

Undercut

" Undercut "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Dissimilar
issues
of privilege
keeping
company
with the folly
of trollops
along
with the
misgivings
of modern
swanlike
models
shrewdly
borrowing
re-enacted
costumes
undercut
and pasted
with fabricated
condemnation.

Accidentaly Chromatic

" Accidentally Chromatic "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Inherent
in the selection
added after death
is the suggested subtext
of an accidentally
chromatic back and forth.

Dedicated

" Dedicated "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Modestly dressed
dedicated
to the public display
of implicitly
spiritual visions
bluntly described
close up
against a splendidly
regiggered blue view.

Gearing Up

" Gearing Up "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

On the block
for the time being
gearing up
for over a year
fittingly
with rarity's
extra appeal.

Blazing

" Blazing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Back in view
casually
assuming
gently
humorous
pitch-
perfect
comic patter
as sirens wail
evoking
weirdly
concentrated
and aggressively
reshaped blazing spaces.

Although

" Although "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

All low end
opening and closing
preconceived notions
of heels and toes
although
nothing is showing.

Gummy and Desperate

" Gummy and Desperate "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Feeling wistfully
reflective and over-
whelmingly retro-
spective, but becoming
gummy and desperate
when attempting
to start over again.

Blinking Back

" Blinking Back "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Widely credited
to some extent
with hemming in
previously
unthinkable
instincts
while blinking
back tears
in an incisively
mimelike
battle for survival.

Interior

" Interior "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Interior
renovations
long
frustrated
by
the wiping
of clean slates
by
unconscionably
anonymous
gossips.

Downtime

" Downtime "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Irreconcilable
protective ice
lingering
in the spotlight
simultaneously
over time
coinciding
with a tacit recital
of outright downtime.

An Obit

" An Obit "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Pop down
the touch pad
finger-scribble
" irresistible "
with the width
of division
and the breadth
of ambition
written in an obit.

3rd Dimension

" 3rd Dimension "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Only the most
ephemeral
intelligence
will detect
the intentions
of a 3rd
dimension.

Hidden Complexities

" Hidden Complexities "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Reviving
data sharing
assessing
hidden
complexities
of pointless
differentiations
all in the same way.

Hidden Agenda

" Hidden Agenda "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

A hidden agenda
chatting casually
against a backlit tablet
of embattled navigation
nestling in an empty grave.

Habitués

" Habitués "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Dynamic ebbing and flowing
of ways of portraying
habitués of the new and abstruse
modular waftings of the episodic.

Opening Moments

" Opening Moments "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Gracefully paced
opening moments of rich vibrato
and lush shimmering strings
unabashedly plucking at the finale.

Soul Searching

" Soul Searching "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Ultimately
rejected
hands
down
with
soul-
searching
gravity
as
a
throw-
back.