Elegaic Exhilaration

" Elegaic Exhilaration "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Forthcoming
inside the hall
an elegaic
exhilaration
at a brisk pace.

Once Shocking

" Once Shocking "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Once
shocking
now poetic
grand stage
outrageous
sacred.

Amid the Absence

" Amid the Absence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Known for moaning
amid the absence
of a sense
of adventure
within minutes
of dismal darkness.

Full Force

" Full Force "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Full force
stressed out
restaged
blow by blow
the first show
engrossing
quasi-naïve -
exploding.

Cosmic Quick

" Cosmic Quick "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Leaps of faith
under fire
on a tag line
big enough
to be called
cosmic quick
in a zippy sitcom.

Whispered Validities

" Whispered Validities "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Whispered validities
pit angry victims
against city officials
poised to reach
a grievous deal.

Numberless

" Numberless "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Banefully
complacent
plus
unctuously
smug
lumbering
plunderers
summon
up
numberless
victims
of
limitless
retaliatory
gore
with
punitively
innumerable
brutal
retributions.

Strict Conditions

" Strict Conditions "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Under strict
conditions
of anonymity
paranoidal corps
hoard scores
of forewarnings.

High Risk

" High Risk "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Bidding invisible billions
in a distal pitch
for high-risk
contiguous contaminants.

Missing Links

" Missing Links "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

During the deal
of delinquent dreams
missing links immediately
repeat recent deceits.

Ebony

" Ebony "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Emergent
stems
of
glistening
emerald
effervesce
against
fertile
cells
of
ebony.

Forced to Start

" Forced to Start "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Forced to start
with two diamonds
wondering
if the game
is even makable
like a diagramed deal
with the players
still straining to make
a positive statement
in the final contract
after discarding
the diamond
king-queen.

Emblematic Black

" Emblematic Black "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Iconic
lines
of bright white
streak
across expansive
paths
of emblematic black.

Seismic Cries

" Seismic Cries "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Outsized seismic cries
inevitably rise
after the stultifying denial
of the exponential heft
and gut-wrenching complexity
of the radiating devastation
of a high-magnitude quake.

In Essence

" In Essence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

In essence
a huge step
reducing
nuclear
arsenals
posturing
as subatomic
particles.

Unearthing

" Unearthing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Unearthing
an integral
hit and miss
with a stringently
serendipitous
messy, larky
charged-up
top to bottom.

Disquieting Mime

" Disquieting Mime "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Crossing
a stark stage
in harsh profile
left to right
modeling
the horror
of ancient
carnage
in stoically
modern
bas-relief
repeating
disquietingly
violent scenes
in mime live.

My Shining Mind's Eye

" My Shining Mind's Eye "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

My shining
mind's eye
burns
like the certain
return
of a starlit
nocturne.

Disbelief

" Disbelief "

by Suzán Jiván

With veined red maple leafs
painted on puffed-up cheeks
mourning fans succumb
to solipsistical disbelief
noxiously in defeat.

Inclusion

" Inclusion "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Cooly shot through
with the inclusion
of superlative virtue
savvilly sharpened
from models
of modernism.

For Real

" For Real "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Insisting
on crystalline
clarity
while ceaslessly
repeating,
" For Real?! "

Evolving Still

" Evolving Still "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Getting
clear ideas
long been
revered
evolving
still.

Waxing and Waning

" Waxing and Waning "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Assiduously sifting
history-containing
waxing and waning
lunate shapes.

Re-envisioning

" Re-envisioning "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Magisterial
navel gazing
re-envisioning
intimacy
unblinkingly.

Letting Loose

" Letting Loose "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Letting loose
bleats, wails
yips, howls
and shrieks
by no means
naïve
beguilingly
yowling.

Well-kept Secrets

" Well-kept Secrets "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Citing anonymous sources
for trademarked objects
like costumes and props
topped off
with unmarked volumes
of discreetly comedic
well-kept secrets.

Witty Ad Libs

" Witty Ad Libs "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Seemingly nitpicky
missing from slicker
witty ad libs
lost amid bits
of original schtick.

Mimicking Inevitability

" Mimicking Inevitability "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Mimicking inevitability
as impoverished
and unpopular
as a sulphurous
burnt-out husk.

Passing Through a Pattern

" Passing Through a Pattern "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Passing
through a pattern
of transparency
gesturally linking
quivering feet
into a seemingly
insipid theme
transformingly varied.

Corporeal Lore

" Corporeal Lore "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Bit by bit
transcendent myths
erotically throb
within an all-
encompassing
corporeal lore.

Continuum

" Continuum "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Up-and-coming
close up love
initially subtle
then becoming
as sumptuous
as a diamond-
incrusted
continuum.

Judging

" Judging "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Judging one another
from the number
of cryptic undercuts
hidden in ambiguous
labyrinths of site-specific
unfinished history.

Intrepid Depths

" Intrepid Depths "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Almost preternatural
originality infectiously
delving into intrepid depths
fluidly refuting the illusory
denudement of all-inclusiveness.

Lovelorn

" Lovelorn "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Nearly disappearing
into a parting nod
truncated at the top
then squeezed
into a monumental box
of lovelorn objects.

Amatorial Lore

" Amatorial Lore "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

An ardently modern
tellingly tensile
emotive readiness
to restore
amatorial lore.

Momentous Ebony

" Momentous Ebony "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Vernal stems
of poetical love
spiral up
integral pillars
of momentous
ebony.

Trilling

" Trilling "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Intricate and fiddly virtuosic duets
elicit repetitively swelling bells
and brilliantly trilling whistles
culminating in circular
structures and lurching rests.

Watching and Waiting

" Watching and Waiting "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Waiting
in the wings
with alternative
strategies
worth keeping
adroitly straddling
disparate mishaps.

Reminiscence

" Reminiscence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Indulging
in daydreams
of reminiscence
breathing and swallowing
the unsentimentality
of a moment's notice
overwhelmingly swept up
by an all-of-a-sudden current.

Synching

" Synching "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Sticking with familiarity
rather than riskily synching
questioning of churlish touches
of glum percussion sullenly conducted.

Burgeoning

" Burgeoning "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Time-smoothed
into a crucially new
breath-swelled largesse
burgeoning Into exultant
flourishes of original love.

Upshot

" Upshot "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

The upshot
concoction
of ardent
whether
or nots
dissolves
into toxic
will nots.

Seminal inventiveness

" Seminal Inventiveness "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Osmotically
rejiggering
history
fittingly
over-
seeing
your-
body-
my-
art
genius
empirically
steeped
in seminal
inventiveness
seeping
through
previously
impervious
see-
through
screens.

Rarely Seen

" Rarely Seen "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Rarely seen
beaten gold
gleaming
unabashedly
in intermingling
amatory spheres.

Varying

" Varying in Intensity "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Elusive
movements
in brooding-
free fantasies
varying
in intesity
in keeping
with exotic
complexities.

Setting a Record

" Setting a Record "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Setting a record
as the hammer fell
on the receiving end
of an adventure
in amorous expression.

Fourth Dimension

" Fourth Dimension "

by Suzán Jiván

for Swain

Nodding
to the beginning
with a winning bid
for a self-professed
eerily prophetic
fourth dimension.

Caught by Surprise

" Caught by Surprise "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Caught by surprise
while paranoically
avoiding shortfalls
by feloniously keeping
erroneous secrets
on a grand scale.

Portentous

" Portentous "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

Self-evident questions
raise unforseen change
unleashing portentous
intellect in retrospect.

Intransigence

" Intransigence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Frank

A mainstay
for decades
especially
well-worn
formulas
of gory
slaughter
as unenforcible laws
amp up intransigent
smash-and-grab.