Hold Fast

" Hold Fast "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Clandestined

" Clandestined "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Inevitable

" Inevitable "

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.

Labyrinths

" Labyrinths "

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.

Unearthly

" Unearthly "

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.

Stymieing

" Stymieing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Vapor

" Vapor "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Scaling Back

" Scaling Back "

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.

Stamping Out

" Stamping Out "

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.

Steering Clear

" Steering Clear "

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!

Ballyhooed

" Ballyhooed "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Laying Claim

" Laying Claim "

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.

Taking It's Toll

" Taking It's Toll "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Intimating

" Intimating "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Hand-Wrought

" Hand-Wrought "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Glaring Panoplies

" Glaring Panoplies "

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.

Memory Lane

" Memory Lane "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The dangerous sway
of " ixnay " and " amscray "
recognized as jovial
denials of like-mindedness
engraved on name plates
acknowledging the inescapable domain
of a rueful troll of Memory Lane.

Claiming Space

" Claiming Space "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Revisiting

" Revisiting "

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...

Seldom Seen

" Seldom Seen "

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.

Usurption

" Usurption "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

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

Ought Not Go

" Ought Not Go "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Ought not go
steering largely clear
of fitfully-funny yukfests
with low joke-to-minute ratios
delivered in viscerally charged
but thoughtful pickup zones
filled with cheerfully off-kilter
singalong scores.

Into Place

" Into Place "

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-red
perspective.

Hovering Above

" Hovering Above "

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.

A Game Changer

" A Game Changer "

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.