To Reshape

" To Reshape "

by Suzán Jiván

Having conversations
while finding ways
to reshape
elaborately mangled
unsustained claims
enunciated with barbed
agitation punctuated
without reconciliation...

Come to Visit

" Come to Visit "

by Suzán Jiván

A transfixing vanity having casually
come to visit
with a pivotally withery complicity
eerily tipping
into a narcissistic litany
of skin-
crawly transparencies...

A Walk-On-By Reply

" A Walk-On-By Reply "

by Suzán Jiván

An insider look
without a walk-on-by reply
of the stylized kind from the uptight
intertwinigly misaligned
at precisely the same time...

Tucked Under

" Tucked Under "

by Suzán Jiván

Never heard of as multi-layers
of concave containers
tucked under
frail lids of thinning goatskin
stretched across
ancient perceptions
of heralded intrepidness...

A Walking Hat

" A Walking Hat "

by Suzán Jiván

The probable absence
of a walking hat
with characters
blathering in baseball caps
attempting to capture
the magic of the past
with the distinctive tinctures
and turned-up brims
of low-crowned chapeaux...

Gone Unmentioned

" Gone Unmentioned "

By Suzán Jiván

Beyond mention gone unmentioned
yet speaking for themselves cleverer
than most by slyly weaving in and out
with full-lipped clips of snide-edged
defiance...

Underplayed

" Underplayed "

by Suzán Jiván

With sufficient
repartee
in the making
chaotically
underplayed
without revelations
in an implausibly torturous order
even after an abracadabra...

Portraits

" Portraits "

by Suzán Jiván

Neon slogans
as portraits
of modern-day saints
in stipulated frameable
tribulation...

Heartlessness

" Heartlessness "

by Suzán Jiván

Simultaneously a statement
as well as a question
presented as unreferenced
heartlessness
with effortless self-deception...

Inclining

" Inclining "

by Suzán Jiván

Perhaps out
of desire
as an entire
look alike
inclining
toward
a mystifyingly
lifelong self-
absorption...

Spawning

" Spawning "

by Suzán Jiván

Vice versa
spawning long unwavering dedication
to unshaoed undertakings remaining
squeamish about the way
malice happens with maximum sass...

Apart from Being

" Apart from Being "

by Suzán Jiván

Distinguishing features
apart from being
like witnessed timidity
and chiseled diversity
supplied as static blandness
and sarcastic vulgarity
absent from admirable compassion...

A Hushed Threat

" A Hushed Threat "

by Suzán Jiván

Already evident
without the ping-pong effect
at some level of a hushed threat
drowned out by the over sentimentality
of this-or-that as a tit-for-tat...

Recent Vintage

" Recent Vintage "

by Suzán Jiván

What grew
numbing
from
way
too
many empty refrains
and unruly bigness
of a recent vintage
in deviation
from neither
default nor choice...

Both Extend and Pretend

" Both Extend and Pretend "

by Suzán Jiván

Perhaps
no
surprise
already
under
the
belt
with
a
preference
for
building
tension
with
the
potential
to both
extend
and
pretend
during
a
notch-
by-
notch
girded
drama...

An Attraction

" An Attraction "

by Suzán Jiván

Beyond
all necessity
blathering
happily
as an attraction
casting
off constraints
and celebrating
fate
as a quiet haven...

An Ability

" An Ability "

by Suzán Jiván

An invisible sign
of a certain type
we'll never find
with an ability
to deliver a line
during an excruciatingly
quieter time of decline...

In Twee Narration

" In Twee Narration "

by Suzán Jiván

Wondering exactly
in twee narration
around the house
slow moving
and largely by accident
while fixated on the bombast...

Flashbacked

" Flashbacked "

by Suzán Jiván

Weaving a tapestry
while embodying gatherings
of latter-day flagwavers
and pedantically
harried nuclear families
into flashbacked
strands of tie-dyed-
duck-and-cover minds...

The Inexorable

" The Inexorable "

by Suzán Jiván

A tutorial on the inexorable
skeleton key to the geek
needed to deal meaningfully
with the panoply of techy parodies...

Naturally Cultivated

" Naturally Cultivated "

by Suzán Jiván

Between plantings bare patches
of the naturally cultivated
pathways
of herbaceous
segues
to an adjacent
propogation
of the native...

Within Proximity

" Within Proximity "

by Suzán Jiván

Still a sphinx with complexities
within proximity
of the late-late-late enervatingly vague
and entertainingly unstable
scrawlings of ancient
words and phrases as a play-by-play
contemplation of the untamed...

Recognized in Photographs

" Recognized in Photographs "

by Suzán Jiván

The velvet unknown
whose role as a poet
has earned a footnote
on the record as an annal
of the expansively standard headscratcher
as recognized
in photographs...

Low Flying

" Low Flying "

by Suzán Jiván

Behind the wildness inspired
by disparate heights
of low-flying
big nights
of delight despite
complete compliance
with belying self-reliance...

Proudly Displayed

" Proudly Displayed "

by Suzán Jiván

Now emerging quixotically
as hit-or-miss irregularly layered
in waves ruthlessly shaped
and proudly displayed
in the haphazard
hedging action
of low-lying plants...

Boggling the Mind & Teasing the Eye

" Boggling the Mind
& Teasing the Eye "

by Suzán Jiván

An age-old tale
shaken
by a nightmare
of bombast
individuality
with a visceral
ability
to deliver a line
like a gasping
priority
by boggling
the mind
and teasing
the eye...

Solemn Enemies

" Solemn Enemies "

by Suzán Jiván

As the terrain shifts with a big lift
of solemn enemies
by the willingness to risk
the unilateral capital
of a pug-nosed kid...

An Encrusted Place

" An Encrusted Place "

by Suzán Jiván

Everything
else
reimagined
as a vast
landscape
not taking
anything
away
from art
making
as
an
encrusted
place...

Storying Across

" Storying Across "

by Suzán Jiván

To a handful of rigorous
minimalists
in montages of episodic
baubles
storying across
onslaughts
of the visibly bored...

Something Steely

" Something Steely "

by Suzán Jiván

At intervals full and even
tantalizingly flinty
with the slightest shift
into something steely
conjuring a widening guide
toward the final fireside
of the self-described misaligned...

From Afar

" From Afar "

by Suzán Jiván

Fear
not
from afar
no
matter
what
as homage
to
the gossamer...

Conflicted

" Conflicted "

by Suzán Jiván

Before
during
and
after
noiseless
immaculate
conflicted
and
contracted
as mass
examples
of vanguard
aptitudes
crafted
as vernacular...

Phase-Inspired

" Phase-Inspired "

by Suzán Jiván

Once described as cocktail sized
despite essential styles
of mythic compromise
as phase-inspired
one hundred times
higher in the not-so-bright
unsolicited demise of the ill advised...

A Handful

" A Handful "

by Suzán Jiván

Highly unusual in a huge musical
as slick, pulpy and eye-filling
when flecked with glitter
from a handful
of participants..

Nominated for Roles

" Nominated for Roles "

by Suzán Jiván

A jingoistic tone
nominated for roles
between the mellow
and merely old as both
glittery and crowd pleasing
in an audacious minstrel show
of the polarizingly outmoded...

Harsh Methods

" Harsh Methods "

by Suzán Jiván

Crosschecked intent on telling
officials said as revealing pressures
were wrestling with harsh methods
of the intensely interested...

Atypically Crimped

" Atypically Crimped "

by Suzán Jiván

Striving for insights into wizardry
while subsisting as atypically crimped
and ultimately stripped
by the acidity of the familiar...

A Star Machine

" A Star Machine "

by Suzán Jiván

To a large degree
being
a star machine
worth
a lingering
twinkle
like a glorified
busy
summing up
punching out
parallels
as panoramic
fads...

The Founding Ego

" The Founding Ego "

by Suzán Jiván

Succeeding briefly by roving
on a flower show of operatic folk
with the founding ego of marigolds...

Delirium

" Delirium "

by Suzán Jiván

A few lost souls from anything goes
all over petering out low key
in a brittle delirium...

Inclinations

" Inclinations "

by Suzán Jiván

A kind of colony
with projects
involving
congregating
in a fertile place
of the persuasively
arranged inclinations...

Gridlock in Dots

" Gridlock in Dots "

by Suzán Jiván

First person harder to turn
like gridlock in dots
in three-part cocktails
from satiny bottles
of intoxicants...

Behind & Beside

" Behind & Beside "

by Suzán Jiván

In plain sight
behind & beside
a moonless night
of less than a mile...

Hair-Raising

" Hair-Raising "

by Suzán Jiván

Carefully conceived
hardly needing
hair-raising
landscapes
doctored up with paint
as commentary
on gnarly tchotchkes...

Often Said

" Often Said "

by Suzán Jiván

Added elements like impressions
of the often said
as a continual experiment
in numerical fragments
sticking together letter by letter...

Already Textured

" Already Textured "

by Suzán Jiván

A set of experiments
doable and defendable
yet
delicately ephemeral
as
an already textured
guess
of individual letters
expressed
as a lengthy sentence
upon
closer inspection...

Damaged Bastion

" Damaged Bastion "

by Suzán Jiván

The root issue
of unassuming credulity
week after week
allowing hackers to ravish
unimaginably
damaged bastions en masse...

Cyberspace

" Cyberspace "

by Suzán Jiván

Aimed
mostly
at
ovation
as
a
trans-
plantation
into cyberspace
without
an expiration date...

An Epilogue

" An Epilogue "

by Suzán Jiván

An increasingly
essential no-nonsense
as a soaring prologue
followed by a body
of the bazaar
then ending
with an epilogue
of an oom-pah-pah...

Sealed Off

" Sealed Off "

by Suzán Jiván

The balance
of attention
sealed off
from the rest
like a permanent
collection
of less-
sophisticated
friends
in the apartness
of the modern...