Blindingly

" Blindingly "

by Suzán Jiván

Filling in the picture
with a digital billboard
by manically flashing
like blindingly
desirous light
against a matte
background
of abject black...

Confessing

" Confessing "

by Suzán Jiván

Stung by perception
while obsessively
confessing
perpetually psychedelic
never-nevers...

Tapped Out

" Tapped Out "

by Suzán Jiván

Ultimately
howling
nowadays
tapped out
and still
stunned
after an all-
of-a-sudden
deconstruction...

In Keeping

" In Keeping "

by Suzán Jiván

Still on the line
songwriting
about niceties
in keeping
with ringing
deeply
with meaning
while unwaveringly
experiencing
insistent riveting
as repetition...

Together

" Together "

by Suzán Jiván

Uncovered
together
attending
to the pretended
protection of an edge
along with the recollected
intensity of the center...

In Review

" In Review "

by Suzán Jiván

Simple virtues
in review
playing
with sympathies
before whipping
minimalistic
zigzags
into straighter paths
with greater clarity...

Lavishing Flings

" Lavishing Flings "

by Suzán Jiván

No less familiar
tiptoeing toward
commitment
like cultish lovers
lavishing flings
like eccentricities
while angling
toward scarcely
examined
exasperating flack...

Inclined

" Inclined "

by Suzán Jiván

Real
urban life
inclined
to derive
serious-mindedness
in dim light as tirelessly worthwhile...

Indecipherable

" Indecipherable "

by Suzán Jiván

Light-filled
remindings
at nighttime
like indecipherable
outsiders most likely
to be docile as opposed to vile...

Tearing Apart

" Tearing Apart "

by Suzán Jiván

Taking over
tearing apart
plans to unveil
wavelashed glass
scoured on a large scale...

Upheld

" Upheld "

by Suzán Jiván

Duplicity
upheld
as
posturing
for
authenticity
while
simultaneously
being
belied
by
make-believe...

Intimacy

" Intimacy "

by Suzán Jiván

Appealing
intimacy
while
quickly
morphing
into
the
invariably
reedy
chords
of
a
desultory
courtship...

As a Stunt or Riff

" As a Stunt or Riff "

by Suzán Jiván

The surprise pick
as a stunt or riff
in each compartment
of the grid silhouetted
as munificent individuals
with the willingness to forgive...

Figurative Sculpture

" Figurative Sculpture "

by Suzán Jiván

A live model like a stand-in
for a gutsy makeover in the moment
thought to have been
stunned to discover an endless run
of figurative sculpture
as a conceptual stunt...

Divine

" Divine "

by Suzán Jiván

Iconic
delight
dramatized
as desire
like
divine
blazes
of light
eternalized...

Ephemera

" Ephemera "

by Suzán Jiván

A reelection
as a collection
of ephemera
meant to represent
almost any remembrance
as a haphazard
shimmering mash-up
of disparate artifacts...

Cited as Desire

" Cited as Desire "

by Suzán Jiván

On the rise like
a sublime timetable
cited as desire
cross-fertilized by longtime
and big-time delights
digitized worldwide...

Cherry-Picked

" Cherry-Picked "

by Suzán Jiván

Skipping over
cherry-picked
intelligence
while sidestepping
inevitable questions
as a vain attempt
to settle into the center
of seeming benigness
spiked by anxiety...

Ignoring the Discord

" Ignoring the Discord "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Filling the grid
with prevalence
and hidden no mores
while ignoring the discord
of recall being inlaid
with steel and slate...

High Ideals

" High Concepts "

by Suzán Jiván

Low visibility
with high ideals
in short supply
as lowlifes
maraud inside
divine high-rises...

Underlying

" Underlying "

by Suzán Jiván

Attracts and assaults
with, " Come Hither "
then " GO NOW! "
as fanatically kitschy
ups and downs
like graphically
punchy
disguises
underlying
striking
sightlines...

Astute Attentions

" Astute Attentions "

by Suzán Jiván

Wildly textured
with astute attention
to written mentions
as testaments
to revved-up
seminal connections...

Idealized

" Idealized "

by Suzán Jiván

The actual
title on front
covers
discreetly
lip-synced
with glossy
meaning
in theory
like
idealized
creeds
silkscreened...

With Honorary Status

" With Honorary Status "

by Suzán Jiván

Jig sawed frantic acts
present and past
as shutter snapped
blurry photographs
with honorary status
in scraps...

Subtracted Patterns

" Subtracted Patterns "

by Suzán Jiván

The hybrid genre
joint shots
subtracted patterns
during travels
stretching and flexing
while twitching
in place
with a claimed
collaborator...

Undetected Specters

" Undetected Specters "

by Suzán Jiván

Sheer Interestingness
fitted together with little else
than memorable elements
represented by as of yet
undetected specters...

As Actual

" As Actual "

by Suzán Jiván

You know something
as actual
after a small brawl
ignoring
no more moral
outrage
as if unfazed
by mauling mind games...

Widely Held

" Widely Held "

by Suzán Jiván

Of course
a performance
widely held
while bending
herself
as a long recoil...

Widely Held

" Widely Held "

by Suzán Jiván

Wonders
something
widely held
yet readily spent
like all the rest
of an inaccessible self
long and slender
as a hidden hatpin
bent as well...

Pointing Out

" Pointing Out "

by Suzán Jiván

A how-to
pointing out
reshuffled
tracks
or perhaps
unanswered
therefores
as long-
term
cursive
worlds
hover
then
plunge
as
stubbornly
touching
and
shamelessly
yesterday...

Absorbing

" Absorbing "

by Suzán Jiván

A chameleon
absorbing
cheers and applause
as lovely and lovelorn
beyond recall
forced to make a point...

Prospects

" Prospects "

by Suzán Jiván

Calling on
prospects
for calm
while
declining
to comment
as upstarts
on laptops
wirelessly
scoff
at hands-on...

Wending Its Way

" Wending Its Way "

by Suzán Jiván

Completely
unordinary
as a call-
and-response
opera
relying
on darkness
while
wending its way
with appraisers
and mediators
as compensation
for actually engaging
in conversation
as give-and-take...

Ancient Trees

" Ancient Trees "

by Suzán Jiván

Authorities
on myth
ritually
visual
tinged
with
glib
artifice
reminiscent
of the intrinsic
complicity
of distant
history
with persistent
unease
retrenching
after crises
ultimately
evoking
homespun
demeanors
by tapping
into deeply
rooted
ancient trees...

Blonde Waifs

" Blonde Waifs "

by Suzán Jiván

For the most part in-between art
real bodies in wonkily ardent dialogues involving wildly improvisational
and innovative up takes
of blonde waifs
in translation
with costumes and props
displayed as handmade
with exaggerated makeup
and handsomely generated
combinations as seen somewhere
between indiscreet realism
and the absolute mendacity
of abstraction...

As Autobiography

" As Autobiography "

by Suzán Jiván

A bit melodramatically
answering the need
for make believe
as autobiography
complete
with white knuckling
in a series
taking
a little something
from each as artistic
thinking
while veering
toward dismantling
conflicting
boundaries
within proximity
to deemed
necessities...

Chrysalis-Like

" Chrysalis-Like "

by Suzán Jiván

Gray landscapes populated
by pupating psyches
morphing inside
chrysalis-like
cocoons of primordial light...

Varying

" Varying "

by Suzán Jiván

In varying ways
illustrating stasis
of a new day
on an anti-
gravitationally
glacial pavement
between bare legs...

Honeyed Harmonies

" Honeyed Harmonies "

by Suzán Jiván

One of a handful
of honeyed harmonies
scourged as perversion
uncoiling before
a foiled rapport...

Wondering

" Wondering "

by Suzán Jiván

On the wrong side of
wondering
why
sweethearts sing
of sweet green
icing
unwaveringly
as unperceived
demeaning
deceit
spreading readily...

On the Brink

" On the Brink "

by Suzán Jiván

Rediscovered
on the brink
of one seen
this spring
in obscurity
long and winding
like hypnotic
black and white...

Championing

" Championing "

by Suzán Jiván

A masterly
tale
astonishingly
fast
on a small
scale
as a four-bar
vamp
scarcely
championing
the soon-to-be
quite
possibly
exemplary
roughly folksy...

Coming to Mind

" Coming to Mind "

by Suzán Jiván

More likely
coming to mind
as admired
like silent-
movie styles
inspired
by dichotomies
in direct
lines of sight...

More Likely

" More Likely "

by Suzán Jiván

Prominently
featuring
more likely
to think
pre-eminently
while continuing
to renew a mood
of previously unseen
tedious mimicry...

Floridity

" Floridity "

by Suzán Jiván

Embracing niceties
while ringed by
floridity
and unflaggingly
romantic mantras...

Lamentable

" Lamentable "

by Suzán Jiván

Directionless snorts 'n' struts
as posturings of macho
with un-self-conscious
intimate knowledge
of volatile subplots
chronicling unbridgeable
lamentable distances...

Clichés

" Clichés "

by Suzán Jiván

A pile up
of clichés
half-baked
by an old flame
credibly portrayed
like puerile behavior
while aging...

Poetically Independent

" Poetically Independent "

by Suzán Jiván

By itself as a sense
of the poetically independent
like impetuousness
written in lyrically squiggly lines...

The Cognoscenti

" The Cognoscenti "

by Suzán Jiván

Helps explain
by the way
of the cognoscenti
as unwilling or unable
to give up myth making...

A Poetic Sense of Place

" A Poetic Sense of Place "

by Suzán Jiván

An entire day in a different way
in appreciation of the reign
of a good-natured embrace
culminating as a claim
to a poetic sense of place...