Supreme Micro

" Supremem Micro "

by Suzán Jiván

for Ishamarr Swan

Supreme
micro
providing
unreliable
two timing
classifieds
by realigning
mannequins
and animals
at first glance
while making a plant.

Bon Voyage

" Bon Voyage "

by Suzán Jiván

for The Gay Community

Bon voyage
heading instead
toward a heterosexual
while paving the way
to the same unfavorable
openly gay disclaiming
and defaming discrimination.

At First Glance

" At First Glance "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Newly restive
cells stiffened
by the ample
helping hands
of marmoreal
microfinance
at a drag-
like first glance
metaphorically
standing.

Compelling Momentum

" Compelling Momentum "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Through the back door
a feeling of ease entering
with the compelling momentum
of a fine-tuned regimen
with empirical evidence
being gleaned dream by dream.

Cold Hard Cash

" Cold Hard Cash "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Thinking and picturing
simply unpacking
in an interactive battlefield
of discordant law enforcement
with shortness of breath
emphatically panting
after dismantling
cold hard cash.

Had Been Redacted

" Had Been Redacted "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Had been redacted
as examples in fact
of criminal acts
of overturned bans
of wholly inadequate
and vastly unplanned
interactive casts
with smartphone apps.

Signals Shift

" Signals Shift "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Unvarnished
signals shift
into unspoken
vivid coalitions
stilling award-
winning
intrinsic villians
with inconsistent
winter afflictions
in a land of privilege.

Distraught

" Distraught "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Report false
pledges to withdraw
expected recalls
of the long distraught
and overwrought
taut discord
along a volitile course
with a gnarly core.

Songs of the Serene

" Songs of the Serene "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Eclipsed at home
insisting on text messaging
to Lang Lang in a tightly-packed
crowd of dancers from a mystical branch where sustained notes
suddenly broke with the songs
of the serene still hovering
after an attempted
bombing of intolerance.

Further Layered

" Further Layered "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Surprised
by a freshly-
sprayed
double yellow
line of paint
translating
poetry to the stage
as words became
further layered
in a harborscape
gathered in imagination
through collaboration
of handclapping
zigzagging
and an insistent rasp.

Not Inclined to Haggle

" Not Inclined to Haggle "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Not inclined to haggle
over safety practices,
" Run it, break it, fix it "
without a single
lost-time incident
with ever-increasing
contentious texts
for a scaled-down
market share
being greatly
out-weighed
by escalating
failsafes.

Many-Tentacled Directions

" Many-Tentacled Directions "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Things not said
overstuffed
schedules
plus potential
for many-
tentacled
directions
with prickly
impressions
as reasons
for circling.

A Radiant Eye in a Triangle

" A Radiant Eye a Triangle "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Top lots
touchy
feely
leafy
gilded
mahogany
sleuthing around
fanning out
seemingly wise
like a radiant
eye in a triangle
seen datys later
removing
adhesive tape
from a landscape.

Taut

" Taut "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

With sketchpads and guns
on a glorious summer morn
roaring with few choices
pointedly remorseless
taught to retort
to the invisible
yet ubiquitous.

Razor Wire

" Razor Wire "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Where and when
second-guessed
rendered events
age-old questions
eyes and minds
stepping aside
clearer and brighter
at times passing by
bonfires and razor wire.

Threatening All Else

" Threatening All Else "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Its leaking well
a domino effect
heavily hedged
empty shells
hemorrhaging
threatening
all else
as a stark
lesson
in excess.

Keeping an Eye Out

" Keeping an Eye Out "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A stogap
to combat
pulling back
keeping
an eye out
for fingering
a split pea
as ethics
breach
far-reaching
secrets
of disease
and toxicology
while looking
perfectly sloppy
nonchalant
and dreaming
modestly.

Sensual Remembrances

" Sensual Remembrances "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

One interlude
shoots
quickly through
as sensual
remembrances
conjure
force fields
and fireballs
all along
orgasmic
coursings.

The Supernatural

" The Supernatural "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

An outbreak
priced out
but slowly
regathering
and still
remastering
cramming
for a super-
natural exam
of wackiness
in a self-parody
filled with the some-
times dyed grinding
mediocrity of orange
muchies with memories
of green...

Toward the Bizarre

" Toward the Bizarre "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

For the first time, a saga
toward the bizarre
empirically speaking
weak to weak
increasingly seeking
to demonize serpentine
and thereby
defrock a state rock.

Upended

" Upended "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Always one-upping
at first blush
culled from a flurry
of stunning love
upended
by a clumsy funk
all of a sudden.

Rehashing History

" Rehashing History "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Back to the birthplace
bringing a fragile peace
of conscripted intimacy
moving quickly
into antipathy
rehashing history
drinking heavily
while making
a bounteous play
with restrained
resignation.

Everyday Life

" Everyday Life "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Seeing and playing
with a new piece
of hardly popular
archives of everyday
life in a lithesome
spiral while roiling silently.

Cheeky Mythologies

" Cheeky Mythologies "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Six-tiered
trained
volunteers
often naked
hold court
in an atrium
all along
an audacious
chaulkboard
of cheeky
mythologies
in dark pop.

Hard Faces

" Hard Faces "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Hard faces
fixed
with forbidding
scowls
shouting out
wisecracks
into the nooks
and crannies
of drastically
overlapping
casts
of flat out rappers
inducing
states of undoing
as chaos ensues.

Ramping Up

" Ramping Up "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

A better understanding
of self-awareness
ramping up
an anatomically calm
subconscious fuse box
with the emphatic
capacity to track
elaborate patterns
of comparative
panic attacks.

Little But One Another

" Little But One Another "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich, PhD
and Stanislaus Dubowski

Little but
one another
in a core
of passing
along
a tear-
down
report
reducing
costs
overall
by trying
to strike
the tiny
bull's eye
of a vicious
cataclysmic
fullfillment
with a concocted
preposterous.

Lush Green

" Lush Green "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski
and Linda Erlich, PhD

Tumbling to victory
somersaulting
across a lush
green lawn
fending off
returning
to a former form
while grunting
and twisting
end over end
in a header
of parental
affection.

Eschewing

" Eschewing "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

I was weeping too
eschewing the pursuit
of reducing mutual truth
into abhorrent shoehorned wars
cramming the appalling norms
of a Wild West bar brawl
into international law.

Evocative Shots

" Evocative Shots "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Front running
along a thin
story line
in a tight race
of runaway favorites
scheduled for someday
in a warm embrace
with haste
plonked into scholarly
emailboxes
where the real
trouble starts
in hard-bitten
flinty cinema
with evocative shots.

Ink Blots of Incompetence

" Ink Blots of Incompetence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Stumping in sludge
coming of age
in disarray
state to state
while trying to place
skimmers into position
in the minds of politicians
along with the giant ink
blots of incompetence.

Hinting at Balance

" Hinting at Balance "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Following precedent
deflecting questions
with extraordinary efforts
fitting in, falling back
while hinting at balance
along with the intrinsically
flawed overhauls of pitfalls.

Racing Forward

" Racing Forward "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

Racing forward
spurring growth
giving notice
recasting a champion
revamping the rallying
cry, " Well Timed "
with the likeness
of unspooling
psychedelic rhyme.