Skewed

" Skewed "

by Suzán Jiván

Interrelated humor
and skewed incongruity
with soul-revealing genius
and the feeling of vanity
still thin on debauchery.

Unsparing

" Unsparing "

by Suzán Jiván

A cadre of floppy
unabashed romance
short and unsparing
dark and unknotted.

Uncertain

" Uncertain "

by Suzán Jiván

Charming adaptation
hardly saying
hackneyed chambers
no-holds barred
interpretations
incinerating lasers
uncertain generations.

Inventiveness

" Inventiveness "

by Suzán Jiván

A fiercely funny, bitingly sad
disintegrating family
played with frayed
squabbling inventiveness
dangerously obsessed.

Approximate

" Approximate "

by Suzán Jiván

Approximate
running times
among other things
bound by frothy
parentheses
featuring
twist-filled hits
about ritualistic
near-apocalyptic
guilt trips.

Smoldering

" Smoldering "

by Suzán Jiván

Dangerous lows
and exultant highs
shining a harsh light
on a hard-bitten
bottom lip grin
vividly smoldering
entirely inside.

Mindsets

" Mindsets "

by Suzán Jiván

Impossible
to upstage
sex-and-death
in subtexts
of coded
references
morbid
mindsets
and anti-
modern
decadence.

Overall

" Overall "

by Suzán Jiván

Materially concrete
in the process of being
less than mediums
rarely seen beneath
encyclopedic mirrored ceilings
reflecting everything
intermittently in overall themes.

Invisibly

" Invisibly "

by Suzán Jiván

Operates
in a similar way
with different
kinds of clipped
images
and disposable
things
kept in tact
almost invisibly
with a cross
inbetween.

Wholeness

" Wholeness "

by Suzán Jiván

A tendency to abandon
formal wholeness
porously organized
unattached to plaster and lathe
and re-written in bubble script.

Amorphous

" Amorphous "

by Suzán Jiván

Squabbling and plotting
with particularly tricky
blockbustery things
reading, "estimate on request"
for amorphous featureless figures
lurking among leafless wintry trees.

Needle

" Needle "

by Suzán Jiván

A racy
little ditty
undulating
sexily
with many
eccentricities
as seen
through
the eye
of a needle.

Longstanding

" Longstanding "

by Suzán Jiván

A low-profile
veil is lifted
over the
long-standing
high-powered
past now poised
as the biggest backers
with conflict-of-interest risks.

Ponderous

" Ponderous "

by Suzán Jiván

Apparently lacking a crackdown
when looking back at ponderous
tolerances for familiar cardboard
serving as familial housing
boxing in indigent citizens
living in sprawling cities.

Otherwise

" Otherwise "

by Suzán Jiván

Forced to abruptly
shift while sifting
heaps of expiring dreams
unearthing gilded gifts
for otherwise empty
stockings of holiday scarlet.

Mirage

" Mirage "

by Suzán Jiván

Profits are a mirage
in a creaky bureaucracy
with a reputation for wanting
a solid footing not having done much
except shuffling into economic slumps.

Green Light

" Green Light "

by Suzán Jiván

Continuing to green light
historical calamities
forging camaraderie
out of the darkness
with thickly accented actors
holding secrets that sing.

Play-Acting

" Play-Acting "

by Suzán Jiván

Hard knocks
given and gotten
uncannily parallel
with play-acting
convincingly drab
disarmingly sweet
and a bit phony
with a whole
lot o' hokie.

Observer

" Observer "

by Suzán Jiván

Glancing around
like a casual
sightseer
in a stint
on a large
observer
mission
with monitors
dismissed
in a big
voter rigging.

Accompaniment

" Accompaniment "

by Suzán Jiván

Offering direct links
to a pithy finish
of unintended
accompaniment
rippling with
timbral influence
from polishing strings.

Transformation

" Transformation "

by Suzán Jiván

Sight unseen
time worth remembering
presiding maternally
over a magical world
offering an ingenious take
on the transformation
of falling crystalline flakes.

Poignancy

" Poignancy "

by Suzán Jiván

Advisors
had had
no inap-
propriate
talks with
uncom-
promising
intimacy
as a
highly
impor-
tant
part
of his-
tory
pos-
thu-
mously
from
comedy
to
tragedy
with breadth
and poignancy.

Yellowcake

" Yellowcake "

by Suzán Jiván

Traffickers and bandits
control a vast new front
from an old cold war
locked beneath the soil
in some smash-and-grab
crumbly atomic ore
called, "yellowcake"
a.k.a. uranium.

Sanctum

" Sanctum "

by Suzán Jiván

Where wealth went
as an epicenter
of the sanctum
within red granite
in a tally
of vows
to keep
special
interests
at a distance.

Adornment

" Adornment "

by Suzán Jiván

Personal adornment
for resolutely unprecious
wire portrait heads
from bits of pendulous whimsy
air kissing with zigzagging lips.

Penny-Ante

" Penny-Ante "

by Suzán Jiván

Disasters in the making
with random bang-bangs
of penny-ante getaways
with merely meager stakes
and mostly mediocre takes.

Balm

" Balm "

by Suzán Jiván

Encouraged
to laugh it off
as a necessary balm
for the bottom up
larger armored
freeze-framed stop.

Time

" Time "

by Suzán Jiván

Limp and hollow-eyed
unspoken longings
in an inner life
of spherical
running time.

Structuring

" Structuring "

by Suzán Jiván

Structuring meaning
with the neutrality
from abstraction
in a controlled
buildup of markedly
foreshortened forms
of endless conjecture.

Angst

" Angst "

by Suzán Jiván

Extended to the highbrow
of mostly glass houses
indoors and out
angst-ridden
gauzy stippling
elixirlike rigor.

Procrastination

" Procrastination "

by Suzán Jiván

From page
to screen
to stage
with the moment
of awakening
from procrastination
as a long song
composed
in three notes
of an ogre.

Ambiguity

" Ambiguity "

by Suzán Jiván

Nominally modest
however blinkered
ambiguous masculinity
puckered and pleated
looking merely
messier and bigger
than real-life ideas.

Phenomenon

" Phenomenon "

by Suzán Jiván

Contours of a phenomenon
in terra cotta hypotheticals
fired for strength
symbolic and incendiary
as rare first hands.

Mortality

" Mortality "

by Suzán Jiván

Making peace
with mortality
ends by not
having to think
while aging quickly
with the unwillingness
to resettle into a vast
internal impasse.

Demons

" Demons "

by Suzán Jiván

Not coincidentally
savoring a different
kind of family history
with an especially
resonant heritage
oblivious to the demons
frolicking anonymously
throughout the scene.

Whodunit

" Whodunit "

by Suzán Jiván

An old-fashioned whodunit?
Which artist painted what?
Upgraded to the present day
smoothly integrated
with the latter days
of the more complicated.

Angularity

" Angularity "

by Suzán Jiván

Artful angularity
with scholarly
nitpicking aside
ultimately accepting
doubt and ambiguity
while plaintively
singing multiple ballads
of the ancient past.

Tightening

" Tightening "

by Suzán Jiván

Despite being nearby
at the very least
step aside to resign
after soliciting bribes
with the tightening grasp
of a classic textbook example.

Intertwined

" Intertwined "

by Suzán Jiván

The candidate
described
in the complaint
issued a mandate
for a more efficient
energy system
outside the gates
of drastic fashionings
with wiretapping described
as the most intertwined.

Doubt

" Doubt "

by Suzán Jiván

With the benefit of the doubt
in a crisis of confidence
evaluating frightening aid
and subsequent evacuation
peacekeepers say
killings were taking place-
but the failure came
from poor communication.

Tolerated

" Tolerated "

by Suzán Jiván

Living high under $100.00
if possible with low-end
choices as a welome sign
not just tolerated at the top.

Impeccably

" Umpeccably "

by Suzán Jiván

Across the stage
of improvisation
breezily surveying
an overhead saying
of a famously-
strange place
gradually being
manipulated
under the spell
of an epic
all-time
best-selling
conduction
of memory
to an extra-
ordinary
extent
revelling
in the
impeccably
unforgettable.

Authenticity

" Authenticity "

by Suzán Jiván

A long-suffering strong vision
standing completely still
with the authenticity
of raised issues
and the simple craving
for holding a gaze.

Exaggerated

" Exaggerated "

by Suzán Jiván

Soon after the new
also included
a point of view
suiting the mood
of a feel-good
musical review
meticulously parodied
as endlessly playing
exaggerated rage.

Corrosive

" Corrosive "

by Suzán Jiván

Provocative
confused and confusing
probing undertows
of inexplicably-audible
coursing waters
eroding corrosive echoes.

Coming

" Coming "

by Suzán Jiván

Coming of age
in an apparent
one-night stand
as if out of nowhere
in a critically beloved
second feature
with a run of bad luck
from an absent-minded hum.

Encapsulation

" Encapsulation "

by Suzán Jiván

Vengeful and profane
taped conversations
stunned even a state
in a neat encapsulation
of the main problem facing
the scrupulously tasteful.

Widespread

" Widespread "

by Suzán Jiván

Holding another ultra-safe
that had now become
acceptable as fail-safe
while federal agents
demand widespread DNA
deserving a great deal of praise
if not in a heroic way.

Complicit

" Complicit "

by Suzán Jiván

With zero yields
schemed inquiries
with details unsealed
by baton- wielding
complicit colleagues
drive a hard bargain
tantamount to coming out
and hunkering down.

Realized

" Realized "

by Suzán Jiván

Meticulously realized
in a meditative calm
with a few good stomps
between madness and genius
with elaborate beginnings
and the heart remaining as a constant.