A Fragrant Mixture

" A Fragrant Mixture "

by Suzán Jiván

A fragrant mixture
self-seeding
on spreading leaves
as silver filigrees
of Artemisia
with chives and times
as stoneflies
For a moment
biting violins
both as logical
and inexplicable
like a pilgrimage
with a shimmy
left unfinished
Ably depicted
as straightforwardly
as a poet and mystic
of the lickety-split
at a crowded vigil
for prowling animals
as artifacts of the wary
In fecal matter
between two camps
pliant and groovy
in a mirrored universe
on the multiple
moons of Jupiter
Like widely-separated
compound eyes
with projections
called style
on the undersides
Considered primitive
with slender cerci
on threadlike antennae
simple biting
predacious cycles
on stone-bottomed streams
cross-crevicing
forward-facing
torpid prey...