Thursday, December 31, 2009

Slender Bodied

" Slender Bodied "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Far less glamorous
slender-bodied figures
ultimately promising
wishful thinking
intellectually speaking
in-between the fingers
all but seeing killer instincts.

Bookends

" Bookends "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

An oddly distancing
present tense
of fragmented bookends
left with the sense
of unforgettably
vivid and omniscient
childhood dread.

Bringing to Mind

" Bringing to Mind "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Mulling over
harkening back
to a biting
likeness
being reviled
while bringing
to mind
giddy spinoffs
along with
the spawning
of boisterous
guffaws.

Essentially Unknown

" Essentially Unknown "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Challenging
back-to-back
filled in
intelligence
with intentions
to exempt
thinly spread
essentially-
unknown
revenues
into the red.

Undetectable Levels

" Undetectable Levels "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Eerily similar
to disconnects
and missteps
failing to prevent
a striking resemblance
to undetectable levels.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

All Four Sides

" All Four Sides "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

At some point
dropping off
postmodern
tinkling of chimes
with dove-gray seats
on all four sides.

Fervid

" Fervid "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Ambitious enough
to have convinced
brash and wicked
vocalists
totally different
with each fervid click
of sumptuous visuals
with the richness
of a patchwork quilt.

Defiance

" Defiance "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Increasingly concerned with slickness
in common with a deeply-familiar
intransigence tinged with defiance.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Numbing

" Numbing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Like pneumatic drills
persistent and numbing
ambitious enough with wisdom
touching down with a hint.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Transcending

" Transcending "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Transcending one's self
savoring room to stretch
in a rhythm section
playing particularly well
jabbing signature
guitar licks remixing
psychedelic blushing
and biting of tongues.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Unanticipated Behavior

" Unanticipated Behavior "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

False cognates
shape the way
to conversations
leading to negotiated payoffs
defamed declarations
and unanticipated behavior.

Proving Hard

" Proving Hard "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The focal point
unwitting and unwilling
to pay homage
to shadowy mobsters
decadent pop stars
or former intelligence operatives
proving hard as an accomplice.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Rather Than Speaking

" Rather Than Speaking "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Enormous breadth and length
both strengthening and waning
when thinking or writing
rather than speaking
with a tiny bit of mystery
intriguingly thrown in.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Slightly Altered Guise

" Slightly Altered Guise "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Pre-existing underpinnings of history
with upward mobility unwittingly
skimping smack in the middle
of everything as an unlikely
slightly altered guise.

Guide Lines

" Guide Lines "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Deeply involved with the softening
of thinking while simultaneously
stymieing compromising guide
lines with hard-lined deadlines.

Testaments

" Testaments "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Reconciling measures
striking deals
likely seeming
incredibly unsettling
as so many
ghostly testaments.

Always Remembered

" Always Remembered "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Always remembered
as even-tempered
with a keen interest
in commissioning
plein airs of means
and scouting around
for pre-conceived
companion pieces.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Devoted

" Devoted "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Devoted
to exacting
studies of just
one but wondering
about three-color
reproductions
curling down
into amassing
meringue-like whites.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Spent Summers at Sunset

" Spent Summers at Sunset "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Quality time
on both sides
well-born
and even-
tempered
fantasies
of the roiled
struggling
to balance
spent summers
at sunset
on the bottom edge
of plunging.

Encapsulated

" Encapsulated "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Setting out
with apparent
spontaneity
becoming
encapsulated
by staid
generations.

Devolving

" Devolving "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Devolving
into
more
modest
hardly
charming
non grata.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Calculating

" Calculating "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Shown from above
taking aim
more calculating
as an embrace.

Good Riddance

" Good Riddance "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Say good riddance
to the unresolvable
visibly conscious
and disheveling
self-deprecation.

Deep Storage

" Deep Storage "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Humanly full-blooded
spilling over wide walks
into deep storage.

Historical Loss

" Historical Loss "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Ranging from prosaic
to illuminated hair-
raising grandeur
with the answer
caught up
in a story
of historical loss.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Comeback

" Comeback "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Unabashedly refracted
as comeback narratives
with musty artifacts
palpably turning black.

Sprigs

" Sprigs "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Image after image
slender sprigs
in winter.

Ancient Trees

" Ancient Trees "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Broadly drawn
motifs
of ancient trees
abruptly bending
as rippling reflections
on wind-driven rivers.

Sophisticated

" Sophisticated "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A modestly-
sophisticated
repartee
complete
with kickbacks
and belly laughs
yet still laid back.

Titter Worthy

" Titter Worthy "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Titter worthy
sinking under
whisking away
still-oozing virility
with pursed lips.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Connecting

" Connecting "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

In recognition
of retrospective
ephemera
and gossamer-thin
remembrances
with flanged lips
as tangential
connecting elements.

Bearing the Brunt

" Bearing the Brunt "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Bearing the brunt
of a cavernous
no-man's
coarse actions
in a sordid story
scourged
with heavy-
handed rants.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Reconfirming

" Reconfirming "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

As an homage to horror
with glimpses of recognition
in film and history
reconfirming
perverse pioneers
of " tongue-in-cheek ".

Accidental

" Accidental "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Accidental chorales
rawly installed
in alien corridors
spawning
innumerable forms
of forgotten knockoffs.

Crawling

" Crawling "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Only to be
seen in
occasional
small doses
crawling
like
penitents
across
enormous
sums
of blood
money
with
no-frills
stripped
bare
to the bone.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Epiphany

" Epiphany "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Betraying a slight edginess
as a flagship presence
becomes sporadically
hands on
widely forgotten
and no longer seen
as an artsy epiphany.

Dropping

" Dropping "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Opening a triple bill
dropping off the grid
with the sturdy rhythm
and the firm toehold
of a morose poet.

Old Guard

" Old Guard "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Playing with ferocity
in a diabolical nonet
pummelling
the old guard
leaping
from swing
to bebop.

Featuring

" Featuring "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Featuring
the rugged
protégé
of a peerless
tango composer
in an un-
accompanied
solo
thwarting
any notion
of tackling
any actual
standards.

Really Only One

" Really Only One "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Really only one
hunkering down
in a jam-band
jointly led
with the help
of you'll never guess.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Bring Back

" Bring Back "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Purposeful sensibility
featuring recent years
as intriguingly contemporary
yet vehemently inclined
to bring back
throw backs of the olden.

Polyphonic Bop

" Polyphonic Bop "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Overtly busy with ardor
gone on
to a delusional
debut in a tuneful
plucky new
polyphonic bop.

In the Foreground

" In the Foreground "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A new series
tirelessly charismatic
in the foreground
unfailingly expressive
especially when in residence
for one month after another.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Blurring

" Blurring "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Blurring the distinction
between full-blown
romantic mode
and a modicum
of somewhat
jumbled funk
from a two-
drink minimum.

Exclusivity

" Exclusivity "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A sensitively
understated
direction
in modern
dress
recently
released
as an
exclusivity
niche
in an
extremely-
limited
edition
along with
the proclivity
for severity
and snobbery.

Sorrow

" Sorrow "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Perfectly tousled bangs
as a charmingly modest
modern conscience
with breezily melodic
calm sorrow
well-suited
to convertible-
cruising.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Mourning

" Mourning "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

So called, " Gone Wrong "
during a sordid mourning
with torrid brawling
unadulterated joy
and morbid distortions
in willful free-for-alls.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Affecting

" Affecting "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

At times affecting
but never really
convincing
trying to find
an intrinsic rhythm
in an ill-fated
formulaic cliché.

Intrepid

" Intrepid "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

As direct a grab
as an indiscriminate
shiver written
as a tentative
feministic history;
mystically focusing in
on mythical-like
intrepid women.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Aside

" Aside "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

To and through the skin
in an essentially slick
but surprisingly slack
examination of the average
poetical life three times aside
from the heightening of the shtick
within an original artistic vision.