Reflecting

" Reflecting "

by Suzán Jiván

Properly reflecting
nobody else
goofy and aggressive
everybody else.

Spectacle

" Spectacle "

by Suzán Jiván

The funny
forlorn spectacle
of trying to pretend
discomfort is evident
in fleeing memories.

Reverie

" Reverie "

by Suzán Jiván

A double-edged itching to connect
wrenchingly out of context
in protective reverie
with maddeningly mixed
cohabitating feelings of grief.

Rejiggered

" Rejiggered "

by Suzán Jiván

With pursed lips
instead of a rejiggered grin
for maximum expressivity
of willed oblivion
glazed with frivolous pleasantness
and bracketted by placid italics.

Topsy-Turvy

" Topsy-Turvy "

by Suzán Jiván

Embodying
the truly motley
in a mix
of scrappy
makeshift histories
with topsy-turvy
insistence
of the nimble
looking awkward
even silly.

Episodes

" Episodes "

by Suzán Jiván

Notoriously closed
and cut-throat episodes
dominate nightly conversations
between high-staked insiders
dining all the while
at posh mahogany tables
feasting off of elegantly-arranged cracked-glaze dinner plates
steaming with mouth-watering entrées.

Swearing In

Even with
extensive
presidential
protection
measures-
both ferocious high hopes
and anxiously-bitten lower lips
will be in evidence in
the inaugural swearing in.

Interpolations

" Interplolations "

by Suzán Jiván

Real-life interpolations
made with hastiness
from cut-and-paste
cinematic fragments
in a maximalist
gray-matter synapse
battle with magnamimous masses
of interloping lollygaggers
into brutal time slot opposites.

Ruminations

" Ruminations "

by Suzán Jiván

Giving shape to chaos
by pulling together a wide range
of miscellaneous rants and ruminations
from inner and outer space.

Categorization

" Categorization"

by Suzán Jiván

From the mundane
to the risqué
finding layers
defying categorization
causing a pre-inaugural
pause in normal discourse.

Wonder

" Wonder "

by Suzán Jiván

Banging the drum with wonder
bolstered by modern momentum
hoping to salvage something
from the primitive nitty-gritty.

Final

" Final "

by Suzán Jiván

A final Q.and A.
a few mistakes
shying away
sometimes sly
stories describe
wreckages of lives
into openings of night.

Seized

" Seized "

by Suzán Jiván

Seized by the notion
blatantly noted
at the last moment
completely opposed
to going forward gung-ho.

Minimizing

" Minimizing "

by Suzán Jiván

Looking at words
striking a tone
emphasizing depth
as far more effective
for huge spending
by making the case
for minimizing mistakes
while still counting on patience.

Upending

" Upending "

by Suzán Jiván

Looking to history
instilled with images
of balance shifts
slipping with jitters
upending the traditional.

Withering

" Withering "

by Suzán Jiván

Crisis imperils
an independent sense
of energy with lessons
from discrepant
predecessors
broadly condemned
with withering criticism.

Molten

" Molten "

by Suzán Jiván

Molten wax from a burning candle
of gossip and tall tales
smug and seductive
liquid and long burning
paradoxical pools
of indissoluble logic.

Flouting

" Flouting "

by Suzán Jiván

Perused in numerous ways
for a later date
flouting good taste
by speaking its name.

Unmistakable

" Unmistakable "

by Suzán Jiván

Sharp downturns
shedding workers
without saying a word
with unmistakable spacings
on a lengthy stage
blazing to life
for the first time.

Ordered

" Ordered "

by Suzán Jiván

Heading into the heart
of pop without pomp
in an anonymous
openness on a grander
more ordered scale.

Fault

" Fault "

by Suzán Jiván

A rare glimpse
long simmering
bid rigging
conditions
of instability
with a fault
on the stimulus.

Pause

" Pause "

by Suzán Jiván

Previously hidden
ancient bas-relief
reaching imploringly
with a languid pause.

Prey

" Prey "

by Suzán Jiván

Havoc in place
taking the bait
birds of prey
beings of fate.

Patterns

" Patterns "

by Suzán Jiván

Patterns and rings
nominally linked
side-by-side
black and white.

Impressions

" Impressions "

by Suzán Jiván

Influenced by
the uninhibited
and unrepentent
practicing
impressions
of every whine
and snivel
tall and slim.

Lessons

" Lessons "

by Suzán Jiván

In fits and starts
line-by-line
lessons of survival
struggling lives
that voice, those eyes.

Fragile

" Fragile "

by Suzán Jiván

Bringing together
collections of eclectic
famous filmmakers
dragging fragile legs
feeling the weight
of unsustainable stages.

Delineated

" Delineated "

by Suzán Jiván

Bulging muscularity
sensitively delineated
bending backward to the ground
toward a broadening audience.

Memorabilia

" Memorabilia "

by Suzán Jiván

Widely repeated
malice twinkling
scorned sequels
selling memorabilia
of shockingly- modern
old-fashioned ideas.

Bouffant

" Bouffant "

by Suzán Jiván

Soon-to-be-vacant
refraining from embracing
with a wink-wink nudge-nudge
introduction to the public
strongly denying
efforts to undermine
an aggressive style
by wearing a poofy
bouffant wig.

Underway

" Underway "

by Suzán Jiván

Preparing to abandon
crackling airwaves
barely underway
to a higher place
as an innocent of nature.

Reckoning

" Reckoning "

by Suzán Jiván

A sense of heavy reckoning
over future directions
ending in revelatory repertories
with layers of transcendence.

Mastermind

" Mastermind "

by Suzán Jiván

The mastermind
behind love that binds
conjuring poetic ferocity
and hallucinatory loss
replete with fevered experience.

Swirl

" Swirl "

by Suzán Jiván

Sides speak defiantly
from hard knocks to hard hits
tracing love in deep currents
furiously absorbing the swirl.

Camouflage

" Camouflage "

by Suzán Jiván

Under a sheath
of camouflage fleece
harvesting species
while sleeping
in the parish sacristy
with the lessons
from a vial of sand.

Scattershot

" Scattershot "

by Suzán Jiván

Scattershot
of opposites
manipulated
with porcupine quills
and then mixed in
with bits of mischief.

Epicenters

" Epicenters "

by Suzán Jiván

Banner-worthy epicenters
of murky otherworlds
with bluntly-stuttering rhythms
but no chordal instruments.

Formidable

" Formidable "

by Suzán Jiván

Historically-informed
performances
in a diffused forum
of formidable movements
with perverse turns.

Otherwise

" Otherwise "

by Suzán Jiván

In dire straits
from oversize
but otherwise
straightforward blame
for hair-trigger interplay
at a pointlessly fast pace.

Clamping Down

" Clamping Down "

by Suzán Jiván

Whoa-whoa choruses
and falsetto ooh-oohs
oppose sophisticated
banter with cultural
swagger via webcam
amid a relentless string
of layoffs and pay-freezes
clamping down on high
society's most glittery
and cozy traditions.

Noirish

" Noirish "

by Suzán Jiván

Noirish thrillers
of sheer energy
and traumatic distances
all over scripts
lured back in.

Fermented

" Fermented "

by Suzán Jiván

Formed on three floors
a note slapped above
a second-floor
tenement door
declaring a clash
with the upscale
in a capacity where
grapes are fermented
on the premises
along with prolonged thoughts
of gentrification stored
down the basement.

Amplified

" Amplified "

by Suzán Jiván

More than enough
humming and mumbling
quickly warming up
to music's sultriness
amplified over all.

Reverberations

" Reverberations "

by Suzán Jiván

A reprise of subtitles
for anyone within sight
of a final season
while hanging tenaciously
with reverberations
from deft players.

Amplification

" Amplification "

by Suzán Jiván

Thrilling to hear
a huge sound
quickly creating
a haze of amplification
on a stage of red and gold drapings.

Salvos

" Salvos "

by Suzán Jiván

In the quiet light
an outsize personality
unabashedly celebrating change
with resounding salvos
into a looking glass.

Wits

" Wits "

by Suzán Jiván

Pulled from
an odd
grab bag
of not
wanting
to ponder
the import
of ominous
contents
ahead in
an opera
with gaudy
contexts
filled with
sparkling wits.

Grip

" Grip "

by Suzán Jiván

So-called
would-be
experts
pontificate
about which
individual
peer pressure
is akin
to a formitive
familial grip.

Slipshod

" Slipshod "

by Suzán Jiván

Arch comedies with frothy plots
but no spoken dialogue
sounding slipshod.

Duel

" Duel "

by Suzán Jiván

Figuring out
the backward
by trying
to turn
it around
with an
especially
cacophanous
"Old Lang Syne"
with a reputation
for denying
a reprisal
in each
and every
New Years'
duel with single-
mindedness.