“Could Bode Ill” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

” Could Bode Ill”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Could bode ill
as a simple proposition
of cutting a ribbon
with integrity and skill
yet reflecting splits
in public opinion
turning sickly
within minutes
ending up listless
linking illnesses
to the opposition
homing in on millions
spying on their origins
without skimping
on gargantuan ambitions
turning vicious
like a fearsome-
looking anglerfish
bait flickering irresistibly
as never-before-seen
in a ghoulish species
fusing and commingling
beneath a darkening
deepening sea ...

“Closing In” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

” Closing In “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Closing in
petering out
greasing gears
of asylum deals
while tapping loyalists’
longtime pillars
by bridging schisms
with scammers’ trickery
like conflicted memoirists
mimicking fish that wriggle
as deeply dissimilar
while unconvincingly
under the influence
moving at a quick clip
lacking in voice recognition
making brutal decisions
lucid, confidently grim
in gray villages of numbness...

“At the Root” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom-Suzán...

“At the Root “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

At the root
of feeling grounded
in a cautionary tale
entailing grants
on large scales
of huge data
like backtracked
backlashed
facial recognition apps
getting taken for granted
going well beyond imagination
taking command
calling out from a fairy tale,
“See you there!”
attempting to manage
a herculean task
of leading to romance
waving wands of magic
polishing fingernails...

“ Record Heat” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

” Record Heat “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Record heat
scarce relief
dealing
with M.P.G.
fleets
in coming weeks
of unrecorded history
dangling feet
as a rethink for A.C.
rendered obsolete
by bacteria and algae
while facing extinction
of entire species
having been depleted
by human activity
capturing urgency
by recycling leggings
from a dark distant place
simulating rules of engagement
in collaboration
with rumination and risk-taking
echoing Old Master Paintings
entering “The Pearly Gates” ...

“Up the Chain” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“Up the Chain”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Up the chain day-to-day
hands-off somewhat painful
halting delays on display
kept at bay feeling unmistakably
shaky and unseemingly blank
play-by-play
neither condemned nor exonerated
like a sphinx
unwilling to reveal its secrets
across two hearings of legalese
extending the mystery
becoming extremely leery
of over-speaking
all within a raging mediasphere...

“Coming Attractions” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

“Coming Attractions”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Coming attractions
coming faster and faster
via marathon ads
living on-demand
with teasers to trailers
for by-standing parents
from a buried past
deemed, “Dreamland Massacres”
as homes that would never be had
here there and elsewhere
being rebranded as,
“Crawdads comin’ a callin’ “...

“Troubles” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“Troubles”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Troubles
fading
away
on
something
of a whim
while
in the company
of a slow-
moving donkey
galumphing
across sparse
parts of a quiet country
lulling and lovely
discovering dense jungles
via shadows of vultures
secretly overrun
and often uninterrupted
freshly shucked
U.F.O. - like structures
as signs of things to come
being teased away
by eddying currents...

“Seething at Leaders” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“ Seething at Leaders “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Seething at leaders
labeled, the “Loony Left”
saying, “America-
Love It or Leave It!”
staging, “Go Back” attacks  
disaster disorder graft
breached data
hacked fast tracks
for unions at BAM
versus an A.I. Lab
with a billion at hand
like architects
of long-lasting champs
while trysting
with fat Old Falstaff
defined by indifferent
voice-casting
and indifferent lip-syncing
like, “Arts Briefly”
becoming literally “empty”
getting laid up in bed
ending with “umich”or “upenn”
as circling intellectual segments
are given, “the go ahead” ...

“ Still Reeling “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“Still Reeling”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Still reeling
heard screaming
as outpourings of grief
dictating strategies
of remembrance
and re-imaginings
like mind-bending realities
expanding canons of originality
striated patterned
slightly abstracted
after years of traveling
up and down
undulant mountains
like concocted topographies
of pink-daubed white dots
collaging stars
in homage to our own oddness
sipping Sauvignon Blanc
in the front yard
mimicking a skilled novelist
going whole hog...

“Nearly Lost” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

” Nearly Lost “

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Nearly lost as bids fizzle showing splits
being put at risk
while working with clinicians
and a technology assist
deemed historically difficult as backstories
while looking for a match
for a half-laugh-track podcast
of intergalactic now fashions
teaming up with NASA clamoring,
“Space is the new black: streetwear splashed” ...

“ An Umbrella Term “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

” An Umbrella Term “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

An umbrella term
like a dating dare
for marching bands
playing on the mainland
as catfish tales for raspberries
spouting, “ Fizz  is now big biz!”
and well worth it
like mist for a spendthrift
given a modern spin
minus the health risks
of a lunar mission
needing ignitions for liftoffs
expressed in miniature
like lunar grit
and cosmic rock fragments
dating back to Apollo capsules
at splashdown
having felt well up to the task ...

“ From Joyous to Absurd to Personal “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

”From Joyous to Absurd to Personal”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

From joyous to absurd to personal
having gone star searching in the predawn
all for the love of stories
fiction and non-fiction
shortlists for children
like dual dew claws of dogs
as oracles for all during moon walks
for barking cohorts and their astronauts
loudly calling, “All aboard!”
conjoined by umbilical chords
to pinpointed repositories
of  quietly hoarded facial software
for a shadowy war
with the so called, “Little Green Men”
being fought with bytes and bandwidth
all in avoidance of a shooting war
as drugs falter “Is Wall Street getting it wrong?”
having remembered the fallen
as a charitable cause
for court-appointed lawyers
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
via composite portraits
including measuring “eye-corners”
while still relying
on the flaws of the so called, “haunted”...

“ Free Slurpees “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

“ Free Slurpees “

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Free slurpees living in brief
after every moon landing
but only in passing
as a floating mass
in the North Atlantic
while citing different eras
of nearly infinite means
yet failing to intervene
by making “Sweetheart Deals”
seeking to rewrite history
running Ponzi Schemes
as seeming wizardry
cheering in confetti streams
honoring female World Cup teams
during the peak of migrant seizures
overcrowding families
after all, “a red-hot summer is here!”
searching for the perfect brassiere
being published in “Good Housekeeping”
still struggling with fit issues,
“No secrets, just supportive tips”
with cups containing the breasts evenly
because bagging or wrinkling
signal the bra is too big ...

“Every Effort to Be Helpful” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Every Effort to Be Helpful”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Every effort to be helpful
patient intelligent and effective
at changing direction
whenever and however necessary
sensing new depths in retrospect
reduced to specks
floating atop oceans
of unknown former foes
now appearing cleansed
like fine white foam flecks
of previously undetected
fleshy specimens
covertly collected
at surfs’ surging edges...

“Making a Mockery” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

” Making a Mockery “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Making a mockery of armor
undergirding ideology
hacking followers
repressing the popular
unconfirmed at the ballot box
attempting to use your “noggin”
to “win hearts”:
 “Knock knock”
“Who’s there?”
“I am”
“I am” who?
“I am that I am”
Spam spam spam spam
like, “Uncle” Sam I am...

“Reanimating Cellular Activity” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

“Reanimating Cellular Activity”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Reanimating cellular activity
in developmental neurobiology
electronically monitored
by a prosthetic conscience
round the clock going viral
on Spooky Movie Nights
titled, “ Phooey Couture”
cutting loose via fringed
and shredded houndstooth
along with a deep love
of old mining towns
Bloody Marys being
made from scratch ...

“ A Reflective Stroll “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

” A Reflective Stroll “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

A reflective stroll
thumbing noses
at late-night hosts
in response
to slick centerfolds
while whistling
past an old folks’ home
outstretched in a pool pose
and clutching a smartphone
with a cut-tree logo
“Getting close...
but not THAT close!”
as overblown “so-so”
travel apps to download
from trip memories
of a promising past ...

“ Overlapping “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“Overlapping”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Overlapping
muffled blasts
struggling to manage
overshadowing
“The whole answer
is there on the canvas”
at first glance
there were no sales
while needing
to live thriftily
feeling clear-eyed
on a “Second Story Sunlight”...

“ A Touch Sweeter “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“A Touch Sweeter “

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A touch sweeter like an upbeat
silkscreened catharsis
reasonably conceived
yet unpromisingly unappealing
like strict previous rulings
of unaccordingly modernized filings
with bite-sized fair uses implied
but kept in mind upon becoming mired
in the slightest of improvised satire
never to re-materialize
except perhaps via highballed
high-jinx served over ice
in a largely unrivaled
attractively transparent
Glen Plaid drinking glass...

“One of the Most Unusual” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“One of the Most Unusual”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

One of the most unusual
made-for-TV moments
like our “Home Sweet Home”
still hoping to be wholesome
“from the mountains
to the prairies
to the oceans
white with foam”
stressing flowing lines
and a balance of light
via powerful shapes
of pink, cream and white
like our unconscious minds
decidedly buying
art “with our ears
and not our eyes”
while the strong minded
crave huge skies
as looming moons
hit our eyes
portrayed outsized
married to Science
by daguerreotypes
in pseudo
blacks and whites
depicting,
“One giant leap for mankind” ...

“ Skewing the Census “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán ...

“ Skewing the Census “

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Skewing the Census
divvying up seats
told explicitly
not to discuss planning
to be “Fair and Accurate”
due to legal battling
over re-drawn boundaries
no matter what happens
as a show of power
from torturous
overcrowding
without showers
while Presidents roll
down the tarmac
saying, “They can’t
be looking at that!”
as little-known tales
of a woman
posing as a man
to sharpen
understanding
of curatorial affairs
re-counted
as Fairy Tales
by keeping tabs
on questionnaires
ultimately deemed,
“Unfair and Inaccurate”
quickly vanishing
having unabashedly
sought to be tallied nationally...

“Underlines Split” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

“Underlines Split”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Underlines split shaken by images
of activists as seen on split screens
while advice goes unheeded
from a pre-wired top tier
fingerprinted bit-by-bit across wish lists
for electro active planet bacteria
as protein sleeves conduct electricity
into distant dreams of a new species
and a new genus while teeth
map hyenas over odysseys
like once-lost purgatory fossils
still Tweeting beneath warming seas
as a kind of Global Google Street
for new genes being nurtured
from vigorous studies of recovery
summing up, “Running takes guts”...

“ A Seemingly Peaceful Tweet “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán...

” A Seemingly Peaceful Tweet “

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A seemingly peaceful tweet
as too much of a good thing
in a showman’s arena
of peering leaders
seeking a nuclear freeze
in order to limit capabilities
via brilliant visuals
and beaming
camera-friendly greetings
secretly seeking
nuclear enrichments
overtly offering
the illusion of progress
as if supposed friendship
were an end in itself
like a bar request
yammering, “You’re on!”
speaking of bonding
but losing your grip
on fissile material ...