Brinkmanship

" Brinkmanship "

by Suzán Jiván

Very little win-win
mixing happy endings
with cautionary tales
more telling and accessible
than a penchant for the prescient.

Intensity

" Intensity"

by Suzán Jiván

A bit misleading hair-trigger timing
for merely a long teaser
in a more complex brief
never mentioning spearheading
glarings of tremendous intensity.

Repository

" Repository "

by Suzán Jiván

A wobbly-voiced song
both physically
and metaphorically
switching to a sexy
pelvic grind
from a seething
repository beneath.

Tyranny

" Tyranny "

by Suzán Jiván

Loosing a bundle or two
wittily and matter-of-factly
disarming an agonizing frailty
by devising an overriding tyranny.

Loosened

" Loosened "

by Suzán Jiván

Seriously darkening leads
jacketed in somber black
stooping with gap-toothed grins
seriously smoothing boot black
onto untied loosened shoes.

Flimflammery

" Flimflammery "

by Suzán Jiván

Flimflammery
on a continental scale
starring a fistful of dollars
trimmed down, toughened up
and gone bust under overindulgence.

Pagan

" Pagan "

by Suzán Jiván

The biggest ever
right of first refusal
for a creative boom
unwilling or unable
to bankroll a new play
due to a pagan tangle
of greenback denominations.

Unlikely

" Unlikely "

by Suzán Jiván

Unlikely
to see
the light
before
anything
is decided
between
insiders
and
outsiders
saying
they
had
the
right
to
prevent
a
lifetime.

Stalemate

" Stalemate "

by Suzán Jiván

All-the-more
perplexing
should be stuck
in a lame duck
for several
more months
to avoid
further inflaming
already-heated
negotiations
and leading
to a stalemate.

According

" According "

by Suzán Jiván

According
to the people
involved in
the popular,
showing off
off-the-air
is definitely
pending.

Opposing

" Opposing "

by Suzán Jiván

During the time
of a quagmire
already shot
aspiring designs
are less likely
under the pre-
condition
of anonymity
between
opposing
parties.

Overstate

" Overstate "

by Suzán Jiván

Difficult to overstate
during a return engagement
of gestation with a luminous
stillness deftly conveyed.

Ineffectual

" Ineffectual "

by Suzán Jiván

Captured by extremes
earplugs help some
already hindered
by the ineffectual
soundness of stillness.

Startlingly

" Startlingly "

by Suzán Jiván

Startlingly original
increasingly surreal
teaching and traveling
with a posthumous inquiry
contrasting transcience
and impermanence
along with a quirkily
dark apostrophe.

Defunct

" Defunct "

Offbeat spaces now defunct
destined to become
a melee of gently weeping
from too much brevity
all tangled up with the funky.

Fragmentation

" Fragmentation "

by Suzán Jiván

Overseen by inspiring
fragmentation and flux
of rarified prose unlikely
to be won over by the
brushed-off lackluster
of scribbled permission slips.

Absurdity

" Absurdity "

by Suzán Jiván

Cheered during
an appearance
mining the sweetspot
between inconceivable
and disbelief laughing
good-naturedly
at absurdity.

Translations

" Translations "

by Suzán Jiván

Jagged pieces
of mixed-up feelings
inconceivably overseen
in page-to-stage
translations
of simultaneous
bloom and decay.

Riser

" Riser "

by Suzán Jiván

An audible sigh
when the timing
was not kind
stepping onto
a riser replete
with weeping
ginning up
interest in
exquisite
contradictions.

Unswayed

" Unswayed "

by Suzán Jiván

Looking back
unswayed
poking holes
in the old
landscape
of a childhood
home minus
a youngster's
buffer for
a budding
culture.

Assent

" Assent "

by Suzán Jivàn

Awaiting likely assent
with a consensus
considered essential
for the reckoning
of unearthed evidence
drawing adoring cores
with deafening roars
for tailing a fast-moving boss.

Oscillation

" Oscillation "

by Suzán Jiván

Sharp-minded focusing
intently and fruitfully
with ethereal sensibility
from an oscillatingly-solid
night club debut after
a two-drink minimum.

Incantations

" Incantations "

by Suzán Jiván

A grasp of shading
and pacing of sacred
incantations aided
by amplification
within improvisational
secret chambers.

Renowned

" Renowned "

by Suzán Jiván

Renowned
for masterly
mash-ups
as well as
spare pre-fab
looking gritty
and pretty
when riddled
with itty-bitty bits.

Otherwise

" Otherwise "

by Suzán Jiván

Performing
high kicks
in hi-tops
in precise
lineups of
punk and
otherwise.

Wholly

" Wholly "

by Suzán Jiván

Weathered and wise
with inventiveness
and gravelly aplomb
creating wholly new
works of modern art
by crowding around
spacey meanderings
of encircling shapes.

Long Last

" Long Last "

by Suzán Jiván

Open-ended
and unexpected
suddenly tested
by a vivid streak
of sentimentality
creating an
unabashed
unquestioned
romance
with song
and dance
at long last.

Detours

" Detours "

by Suzán Jiván

Taking long detours
early and often
never less than rewarding
with substantial chuckles
trumping all along.

Phenomenon

" Phenomenon "

by Suzán Jiván

Latching onto
an amusingly
" too bad "
for a fair bit
of what's unclear
pretty comically
being part
of the rare
phenomenon
of dropping
in to listen.

Unfinished

" Unfinished "

by Suzán Jiván

An unfinished score
believed to have fallen
while begging to differ
with the startlingly visceral
toeing of the line
between rapture
and violence.

Appointed

" Appointed "

by Suzán Jiván

Unrelenting density
with largely indistin-
guishable minor shifts
sticking hard to curiously-
anonymous appointed spots.

Oxidized

" Oxidized "

by Suzán Jiván

Alternating
being fashioned
in sustainable
yet stylish ways
as actors in rotation
putting off change
by circling constellations
of oxidized light.

Fortress

" Fortress "

by Suzán Jiván

Potentially
insurmountable
in a first test
of coattails
enveloped
by a fortress
of strict limits
pried out
of shadows
not just dots.

Headdresses

" Headdresses "

by Suzán Jiván

A plethora
of signalled
dimensions
dearly held
in the feathered
and furred
headdresses
of ardent
over-the-top
artists.

Transcendent

" Transcendent "

by Suzán Jiván

Once subversive
representing
much of the best
of transcendent
objects and texts
all-at-once poetic
and open-ended.

Brave

" Brave "

by Suzán Jiván

A brave new face
under marquee names
where bare walls are rare
with a myriad of chances
as samplings of what's available.

Alter

" Alter "

by Suzán Jiván

Moving to alter
even before
unfulfilled orders
are on and off
in the shadow boxes
of a tatoo parlor
gone gallery hopping.

Uptick

" Uptick "

by Suzán Jiván

An uptick
tucked quickly
into a chink
in the midst
of a strip
of stickiness
with explosives
combined with
an accelerant
mixed with
metal bits
for remotely-
controlled
antipersonnel.

Restless

" Restless "

by Suzán Jiván

Light textured and restless
popping the question
for historical experts
under development
with something to discover
in the legible and logical
starting and stopping.

Daunting

" Daunting "

by Suzán Jiván

Daunting scores
from memory
in thematic threads
with hints of hymns
and the metaphysical
mixed with radicalism
and imagined nostalgia.

Sustaining

" Sustaining "

by Suzán Jiván

Two of the hardest
longest and most
path-breaking works
paired in pieces
roughly written
sustaining
an enormous
shape in
summation.

Debunking

" Debunking "

by Suzán Jiván

Repeatedly debunking
tawdry gumshoe fiction
and a nasty giggle
from a beloved figure
with malfunctioning equipment.

Linking

" Linking "

by Suzán Jiván

Affable candor
with a cursory glance
at the pausible
just barely
quoting and linking
after a long pause.

Conveying

" Conveying "

by Suzán Jiván

Past generations
making relationships
hunting information
with heads forward
and arms dangling
cannily conveying,
" This is the way! "

Zingy

" Zingy "

by Suzán Jiván

Increasingly popular
head-spinning plot twists
from a zingy script
confessing the unhealthy
typically overheated thesis
of immersing experience.

Grubby

" Grubby "

by Suzán Jiván

Ticking off
a laundry list
that can't
be printed
rebelling
against
quitting
grubby
living.

Nihilist

" Nihilist "

by Suzán Jiván

A young hero with a new tatoo
in an unidentifed city forced
and unconvincing as a nihilist.

Silky

" Silky "

by Suzán Jiván

Silky ripples
hidden in shines
standing still
and being quiet
spontaneously
sparked by
an inner light.

Nervously

" Nervously "

by Suzán Jiván

Getting a sense
of guilty pleasure
nervously pondering
the dark side
with the twitchy
mannerisms
of genre fiction
with more distantly
healthy interest
playing competently
in a central theme.

Staging

" Staging "

by Suzán Jiván

More informed
against loss
forced and
unconvincing
staging begins
with little homage
satiric and honest.