Propelled

" Propelled "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Reasonably handsome
quietly dashing
both high-minded
and airy but daring
only up to a point
propelled into motion
by a touch on the shoulder
into a deeply-boned
little-known emotion.

Reopening

" Reopening "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Short on words
in a skirmish
within a slinky
cosmic epiphany
donning a somewhat
shiny and closely-woven faille
characterized by slight
ribs in the weft
turning heads
reopening at the Met.

Dominating

" Dominating "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Dominating the runways
with disciplined good taste
in a public mea culpa
and a rise in the number
of single mothers
with little spunk
plus nubby buttons
wondering if some-
thing was the subject
of nervous combustion
in a conundrum from
micro governments
tumbling toward
unsustainable greatness.

To the Fore

" To the Fore "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Coming to the fore
in a forthcoming audit
underscoring foreclosure
while seizing files
of suicides and homicides
along with hate crimes
requiring ascribing
to acts of violence
toward the logistically invisible
as of yet left unchecked.

Anarchic Sentiments

" Anarchic Sentiments "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Out of context
reversing conventions
to an extent in remembrance
of anarchic sentiments
following in the footsteps
of a Python sketch.

Links to the Unspeakable

" Links to the Unspeakable "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The how-to vocal patterns of scat
where details matter and bonus tracks
are referred to ruefully as far-reaching
nonsensical links to the unspeakable.

Suspicion

" Suspicion "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Remarkably constant
imbued with calmness
after strong starts
and huge markets
in a vivid continuum
of nonfiction
with hardships
and pundits
ticking off lists
tinged with suspicion.

Between Kiss Offs

" Between Kiss Offs "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Between kiss offs
lithe and taut
entering
the final stretch
as the grimmest
in memory
morbidly effortless
and culturally inept
toward the end.

Reimaginings

" Reimaginings "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Pyramidal to conical
thin, open aromatic
reimaginings veering
between brainstorming
from a trapeze
by one knee
and bracing
for a gutsy
soliloquy
with booze
and celebrity.

Shadows at Play

" Shadows at Play "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Injecting itself
with unprecedented levels
clearly intending
to replicate
a rare oasis
by gaining favor
on a clearly-articulated
front page
putting shadows
at play
planning to parlay
a soul-singer's ache
by sidestepping clichés.

Otherwise

" Otherwise "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Strains in an alliance
underscored by a suicide
killing five fears of late lives
missing otherwise.

Giving Hints

" Giving Hints "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Limiting a two-legged species
giving hints of fluttering
around the dump
overrrunning being punished
as a less visible advocate
for a dissisimilar establishment
fighting back absurd attacks
as a celebrity commander
monitoring quarrels
and mock violence
impugning
blue-footed boobies.

At Issue

" At Issue "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Predating Lucy
exchanging
information
with liasons
for AIDS
repeatedly
intervening
while trying
to clean
to the Nth degree
urging midwives
to advise
against swine
spreading widely.

Last Ditch

" Last Ditch "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Persistently seperatist
unexpectantly steeped
in history plummeting
last ditch veering
into commitments
since forgiven.

On the Fly

" On the Fly "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Papers filed
on the fly
by ticking off
climatic
advisors
stream-
lining line
items.

Middle Bare

" Middle Bare "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Ragged edges
tattered skirt
overlapping caps
hold fast
branched hair
middle bare.

Stealthy

" Stealthy "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Signs of left-leaning conspiracies
and clandestine efforts
to design warheads
with veiled threats
of right-winged agendas
covertly spreading
stealthy messages
with double-
digited billions.

Boldfaced

" Boldfaced "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

All but inevitable warm and fuzzy feelings outnumbering
the boldfaced taste-based
vivisecting and reassembling
of wrongheaded
but well-cherished
fleeting expletives.

Claiming Victory

" Claiming Victory "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Still avoiding risks but claiming victory
in limited digital extraditions
into high-tech labyrinths
suddenly becoming public
as exasperatingly-fast
scrambles at first glance.

Trawling for Stars

" Trawling for Stars "

A Love Poem for Frank

by Suzán Jiván

A broad swath
of swooning viewers
trawling for stars
most often watched
delicately dotted
in sharp relief
into orbiting rings
of prospective memories.

Scent-Free

" Scent-Free "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Lifting hope
by signing off
on supposedly hi-
tech climactic proposals
to allow the pointing out
of old coal-stoked
deadly-breathed
electrical sectors
then subsequently
permitting them
to sequester
their own
recaptured
heat-trapping gas
for the millennium
in unearthly burials
of scent-free CO2
sent COD.

Turning a Prophet

" Turning a Prophet "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Intended as confidential
yet deftly spread
as a covert message
herd impressively
where luxury products
are considered
as mass market
hit the hardest
turning a prophet
at the expense
of meals and rent
threatening
to become
permanent
by stymieing
newly-specified
long-term rights.

All-Important

" All-Important "

Would have to do the talking
for the less-familiar
but all-important
templative women figures
with their arms akimbo
making their mark
with cumulatively-
tubular and hugely-looming
trails of elongating vapor.

Fashionably Affable

" Fashionably Affable "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Scaling back
after roaring back
all decked out
in a snappy
new power suit
tailored after
whip-cracking
far surpassing
being jacketed
by the fashionably-
affable fiddle-
faddle of the past.

Impermeable

" Impermeable "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Seeking to ban backing down
by stamping out early peeks
at high-frequency secret meetings
beneath impermeable shields
defending against descending
from the heavens to sea level.

Initiating

" Initiating "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Citing risks
and drawing fire
by fighting crises
while steering clear
of a quiet leader
and initiating
debilitating
fracases
in your face!

Impugned

" Impugned "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Roughly doubled
mea culpas
ballyhooed
as infusions
into convoluted
rebukes impugned
by congressional rudeness.

Cautionary

" Cautionary "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Accepting tit-for-tat
with the narrative panache
of a crash-worthy cautionary tale
laying claim to the waxing and waning
of unnamed mainstays
suffering all the same.

Requited Double Wide

" Requited Double Wide "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Taking it's toll
shrugging off
any air
of self-
importance
altering the course
largely because
of forced
staunch support
for high scoring
requited double wide
on site.

Reverberating

" Reverberating "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Sequestered
some distance
from elliptical
intimacy
reverberating
in and out
of shade
intimating
all-over
paintings.

Zeroing In

" Zeroing In "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Zeroing in too adamantly
ahead of the biggest canvases
challenging the hand-wrought past
still working on scale.

Rapid, If Risky

" Rapid, If Risky "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Making a rapid, if risky, sprint
along a flared path to abstraction
with glaring panoplies
of assiduously perplexing
but perpetually arresting
blurred whirls of dashed-off patches.

Rueful Trolls

" Rueful Trolls "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The dangerous sway
of " ixnay " and " amscray "
recognized as jovial
denials of like-mindedness
engraved on nameplates
acknowledging inescapable domains
of rueful trolls of Memory Lane.

Acting Out

" Acting Out "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Claiming space
acting out
hand-held rage
rounding out
outside the exchange
erasing reservations
with well-lubricated
hanky-panky.

A Sly Bit

" A Sly Bit "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Finding a defining voice
with a sly bit of refinement
thwarting the slam
by revisiting dissonance
with turbidities and mis-
giving - not all that big
to begin with...

Soundness

" Soundness "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Barely suppressed edges
behind the pyrotechnics
of adrenalized extremes
making the big-time leap
of accepting the soundness
of seldom-seen surroundings.

Openness

" Openness "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The happy-sad truth
openness versus silence
worth bearing in mind
determined by bygone's
usurption of time.

Off-Kilter

" Off-Kilter "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Ought not go
steering largely clear
of fitfully-funny yukfests
with low joke-to-minute ratios
delivered in pickup zones
with cheerfully off-kliter
singalong scores .

Perspective

" Perspective "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Igniting speculation
of an intimacy that zips
into cascading lapels
droopy shapes
and elongating a's
pivoting into place
painted with henna
into a well-read
perspective.

Colorful Chaos

" Coloful Chaos "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Blandly soothing
hovering above
cultish dumb luck
largely blending
in with anonymous flops
and the colorful chaos of the squat
in sharp-witted indiscriminate limbo.

Luring the Wary

" Luring the Wary "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A game changer
amid the banter and glare
luring the wary in the wake
of an oddly opaque
out-and-out madness
rippling outward
touching somehow.

Off Script

" Off Script "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Going off script
taking a single swing
guided by instinct
with feet that whisper
rather than squeak
with the histrionic
bristling of being hit
by the whizzing cerebral
as a strapping actor
insidiously fingering
the externalization
of the internal.

Still Trying

" Still Trying "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Cutie-pie whimsy
lanky, low-key
spidery stick figures
twitching awkwardly
staggeringly hands off
in the almost-too-orderly
stark imagery
of still trying
to fit in.

Down-to-Earth

" Down-to-Earth "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Down-to-earth
spare and alien
in every detail
with little fanfare
tucked under
a coverlet
posing
as a supposed
celebrity
acting out
a suitably-
stringent
strategy
using agreeably
low-key techniques.

Reassembled

" Reassembled "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The stated desire
to celebrate nyuk nyuks
wiggling fingers
beneath chins
into intimate crevices
left breathless
when dismantled
then reassembled
through a peephole
in a tableau
below the elbow.

Eye-Glazing

" Eye-Glazing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

With painstaking
eye-glazing debate
explained at great lengths
as nearly the same
gimmicky embracement
of an intimate jazz riff
gigged in the far distance
listened to digitally.

Well Within

" Well Within "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Well within
living memory
still
at a distance
honing in
to bringing
down the house
in a farewell
for now.

Little Understood

" Little Understood "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Increasingly large
but little understood
yet better-than-expected
overextensions
of a long-term trend
set at a loping pace
overloaded
when making the most
of a given moment.

Ultralucid

" Ultralucid "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Ultralucid
mutedly
naive-looking
continuity
pointedly
repeated
in a long
singing phrase
from some kind
of sustained
hand-in-hand
daisy chain
at pains
to make
rationale
irksomely
opaque
by pontificating
from his or her
own daïs
of self-
revelation.

Played Out

" Played Out "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Performing stand-up routines
emphasizing the oddness
of doing a job requiring following
the same script day in and day out
played out among the marble
columns and red carpet
of an almost-undetectable
residence under close inspection.