" Critically Stretched "...

" Critically Stretched "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Critically stretched
existential threats
from primordial questions
declining to comment
due to operating
in obscure markets
involving stark volatility
left wanting
tabulating failed shares
having wagered on fear gauges
pre- &  post- major hurricanes
declared spare savings
after making casting changes
like sedated strangers
stamped, " Grade A aka AOK"...

" Quarrying "...

" Quarrying "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Quarrying antiquities
like late summertime trees
in paintings and drawings
bountiful resources

subsisting modestly
as busybodies
mimicking romance novels
universally acknowledged
published posthumously

like doldrums of domesticity
becoming comically sleek
via offhand techniques
deemed promising

harvesting conglomerates
experiencing cyclonic
storms pummeling water

shuffling staggering
wrapped in blankets
painstaking heartbreaking
reviving memories
of deadly hurricanes

upon losing neighbors
still more rain displacement
of coming days taking
cover bracing raging
waterways staid grave...

" What Remains "...

" What Remains "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

What remains
after deadly rays
of violence
and flames
while crash
investigations
go under-the-table?

like unfair labor
deemed, " NOT O.K."
by voice-activated-face-
saving procrastinators
"Will the equity be worth
the downpayment?"
"What have you done
for me lately?"

while manically making
rent-versus-buy calculations
during much-debated
clickings away on
"Don't cry baby!"

becoming unemotionally inhumane
in insinuated  hypnotic states
of cognitive manipulation
as crumbling detanglings
on predented break tables

all in the workplace
while containing
abrasive remakes
of stiff fundraising
all cut above the flank...

" A Pot-Luck Proxy"...

" A Pot-Luck Proxy "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A pot-luck
proxy served up
anonymously
as a go-between

browsing surfing
at lightning-fast speed
like hidden identities
for secret deputies

while issuing
deciphering keys
during cries of:
"Hide me! Please!"

a la encrypted
attorneys' fees
content to be
"would-bes"

as unauthorized
third parties
running interference

via pseudo-random
algorithmic schemes
for strictly technical reasons...

" Feeling Squeezed "...

" Feeling Squeezed "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Feeling squeezed
over weeks and weeks
by dark secrets
living under conditions
of anonymity
while holding board seats
via committee
deemed wrongheaded culpability
mysterious armor beneath
felines' eyes housed in jackals' teeth
as ectoplasmic possibilities
for poems and dreams in dim museums...

"After a Ritualistic Familial Distillery"...

" After a Ritualistic Familial Distillery "

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

After a ritualistic familial distillery
hard whiskey pouring shots
for farmer bots entering long-shot
exotic lotteries beneath giant lychee trees
high humidity mosquitoes circling
wading into waist-high taro leaves
insync with trusted instincts
for arguably enlarging guavas
grown in garden hollows
filled with tropical promises
setting yards of fruitful harvests
upon fabled far away tables...

" One Might Hope "...

" One Might Hope "

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

One might hope for sweet and fatty species
while dispersing seeds for queens
not of our bodies via wild forests
toucans' emus' monkeys' stories
of many species nurturing tiny minorities
whether corn rice or wheat minus papaya trees

in early paintings dark art evolving
where no one farmed bones and fossils
broken apart leaves terminates beetles
year by year like finite immensities
for indigenous peoples unknown globally

but enough about biology
beneath deciduous canopies
babies emerging birthing collectively
gathering genes in scenarios
of vast possibilities as resources deplete
yet flourishing at the margins gone foraging
running out of options shooting stars...

" Shaggy Bragging Rights"...

" Shaggy Bragging Rights "

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Shaggy bragging rights
of self-aggrandizing
long-haired firebrands

simultaneously uniting
and dividing fiery life cycles
almost overnight via divining
aiming to find clarifying water rites

while living under cantilevered
lifetime fantasies compromised
by deep-down-micro-psyches

lying beneath South Seas
polar region interstices
randomized and double blind...

" Packed Full "...

" Packed Full "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Packed full of warnings
fraught by evidence laws
needing strong overhauls

suffering scrums
as sidewalks crumble
by the dozens

outside of night clubs
never meant for the young
having thrown punches

once known as "discovery"
like "supposed-to-bes"
upon entering pleas of "not guilty"

crushes of people turning angry
losing patience releasing statements of rage
being denounced as "fake"

coming under investigation
stashed under the table
making unsubstantiated claims

blaming prior administrations
advocating long-awaited changes
copies obtained as legislated mandates

estranging states draining outrage
tightening sanctions at staccato paces
threatening retaliation sanctuary spaces
secured in vain...