Vulnerability

" Vulnerability "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Acknowledged possibilities
with sinister hints of vulnerability
reiterated weekly with viability
then evoked full throat
as a hoax seizing the moment
as a black hole in the Gulf of Mexico.

Validation

" Validation "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Erasing decades
staged as plays
predicated
on the willing-
ness to trade
location-based
dastardly data
in exchange
for major
validation
and a mash-up
of pervasive
admiration
as a camp
extravaganza.

Little Known

" Little Known "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

This show
a survey
of the little-known
where even the most
are coping alone
on an open road.

Self-righteous

" Self-righteous "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Easily won
gifted and
ambitious
yet, risking
his legacy
in favor
of slavishly
awakening
his self-
righteous
even
messianic
side.

Lone Wolf

" Lone Wolf "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Glancing
alternately
at the door
and the floor
freely or
nearly free
from lone-wolf
tendencies
intending
to play
some day
after pausing
to read the label.

The Plume

" The Plume "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Lowering the boom
as efforts resume
to preclude
the infusion
of toxic crude.

Burnin' Love

" Burnin' Love "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Marking the start
whenever we want
not taken lightly
blunt
rough and tumble
fangs
and other fluff
justa hunka hunka
burnin' love.

Chockablock

" Chockablock "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Advisors to the stars
raise the bar with resolve
and the imponderable
as top kill begins
with inexplicable optimism
and solemnly-conjured chockablock.

Vibrancy

" Vibrancy "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A meeting
of the minds
with unveiled designs
and notions civilized
with the conviction
of a tangential mix
hinting at lingering
with a prickly vibrancy
sharp and sticky
in intensity.

Undone

" Undone "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Unlike some
playing up
the touching
affable thugs
undone
and seldomly
beloved
winding up
as a startling
dénouement.

Touch Screens

" Touch Screens "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Aiming sights higher
at somewhat colorless
sucked up troubles
on touch screens
intending to blunt
souped up
late comers.

Moonstone Arts Center

Moonstone Poetry Series presented
Aziza Kintch and Leonard Gontarek
as featured readers. Followed by
an open reading.

Said to Order

" Said to Order "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Said to order
more forces
crammed
into an auditorium
viewing
a fittingly
ugly symbol-
oozing crude.

A Fix

" A Fix "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Trying
to get
a fix
as
the tables
turn
on prominent
promises
maily
marketed
online
by heightened
creative types
eking out lives
as midwives.

No Turn on Red

" No Turn on Red "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A punk pixie
with a shrewd strategy
first famously aloof
next, too subdued
then, all consumed
by self-improvement.

Facade

" Facade "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Sliced off parts
of its facade
as a vast
conglomeration
of the aloof
famously
gimmicky
connected
dot-to-dot.

Preposterous

" Preposterous "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A preposterous
mashup of bad
gathered together
as an ominous
en masse
opposed
to tabula rasa
denounced
early on.

God's Property, Inc.

" God's Property, Inc. "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Facing
a rift
feverishly
collecting
conflicts
of interest
stretching
into in-
creasingly
inventive
frenzies
while
wrestling
with
the
real
thing:
ha-has
la-las
and
ta-das.

Toptier Destinies

" Toptier Destinies "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Sifting through
declared victories
of toptier destinies
both costly and risky
with coincidence strewn
but precise use
of the imminence
of insidious gimlets
lest the point be missed.

Instinct

" Instinct "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Driven by instinct
poised for mainstream chic
in a new bastion for cool
making a calculated move
evoking mayhem
with a flippant overlay
swaggering
with a well-waxed mustache
throughout an emphatically
mannerist face-saving late phase.

Evil-Twin Opposites

" Evil-Twin Opposites "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Evil-twin opposites
as part of our existence
less than dead as lethal energy
of 1 percent being subjected
to penalty and sentenced
to unintended consequence.

Known as " Muons "

Known as " Muons "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Viewed as a breakthrough move
with the harmonic daring of bebop
as matter dominance
produces pairs of particles
known as "muons"...
sort of fat electrons.

Telling

" Telling "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A crude tube
ineffectually stems
the inestimable ill effects
of a gushing gulf wellhead
as BPVP Big Wigs
speak of the lethal leak
as a telling percentage
of risk assessment.

Stars or Not

" Stars or Not "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Makes for riveting
watching dotting
the red carpet
stars or not
with bold-
faced names
relegated
to maintaining
explaining away
plane delays
due to
a raging
volcano.

Reckless

" Reckless "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A possible glimpse
of the invisible
along with the reckless
issuance of drilling permits
leading to a series
of catastrophes
replete with irreversibility.

The Cordon

" The Cordon "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Attacking finger-
pointing by oil
while trying
to tighten
the cordon
around broad
often ignored laws.

A Healthy Patch

" A Healthy Patch "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Access to a healthy patch
in the form of the rhetorical
with steps to head off
less is more in primitive form.

Steps

" Steps "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Access to a healthy patch
in the form of the rhetorical
with steps to head off
less is more in primitive form.

Broadened

" Broadened "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Almost unfailingly punctual
arriving with a whisper
defying perpetually decrepit
stereotypes more implicit
than overt with rather
esoteric boyish grins
both sharpened
and broadened
sighting comely
form in favor
of worthy function.

Nope

" Nope "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Expecting consequent re-election
for seemingly upbeat sub-committees
schmoozing their way through
ensuingly amusing crucial solutions.

Too Cozy For Both

" Too Cozy For Both "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Doubts on step
outwardly acknowledging
the disconnect
between party members
with perverse incentives
too cozy for both.

Ill-Prepared

" Ill-Prepared "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Instituting
useless nooses
of antiquated booms
to contain huge
plumes of fossil fuel
as seen from the air
as giant scams
of the ill-prepared
to defend against
massive spills
of catastrophic slicks.

Counter Measures

" Counter Measures "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Counter measures
in a hotbed
of pertinent questions
ending traditional concepts
in imagined duets
of soaring scores
with warbles and wails.

Lifeboats

" Lifeboats "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Spurred on
by progress
still all in all
helicopters thwocked
and lifeboats darted
all in response
to a "negligible" problem.

Impact

" Impact "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Calls for superstrong
hats off to the critic's cap
with the uneven impact
of new-fangled gadgets
on operatic classics.

Staged Scene

" Staged Scene "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Mixed feelings
bold strokes
needed
in a really big
staged scene
reverberating
loudly and clearly
in the final appeal.

Telegenic

" Telegenic "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Sought to determine
telegenic intelligence
and evidence
in a swing district
of uncertainty
with glossy
expressions
of regret
trumpeting
a cleanup.

Non-Profit

" Non-Profit "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Starting early
garnering motley
problem-solving
from non-profit
memoirs of erotica.

All Due Respect

" All Due Respect "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

With all due respect
stretches of minutiae
with dramatic intent
might actually
have been
commissioned
by a librettist.

Unassisted

" Unassisted "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Invisible
to the unassisted
presumably innocent
as anything written
and readily felt
in a flower bed.

Rethinking

" Rethinking "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Torn between
rethinking
every piece
evenly, fairly
in a virtual sweep
of a single year.