Shaping Up as a Target

" Shaping Up as a Target "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

Shaping up as a target
for mismatched partners
in a fatalistic broody place
with baby blues trained
on a fixed horizon line
of mysterioso silence
with bleachy-white teeth
framed as if waking
with a gun-slinging stranger
from the information age
of spellchecking
gestures and gaits
in updated Super 8
like the culprits of aging
laying waste
to the super-
accommodating
Flirting with allowing
a series of flower-powers
as interpretively superb
and dazzling, but risk averse
beginning in miniature
juxtaposed by lyrical gifts
surprisingly magical
with a tempestuous side
of defy fluidity freewheeling
as a supple balancing act
of feisty excitement
capitalizing on the extremely frightening by sidestepping stereotypes
like sweet pliable technique
becoming big and brawny...