“ Raining “ ...

“ Raining “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Raining ash
snarling arteries
marring
iconic landmarks
proffering
improper remarks
alarming
losses of the heart
harping
on unacknowledgement
from the start
pondering
wishing on a star
conjuring
sweet-spotted compartments
stomping
into walk-in closets
unlocking
memoir genres
modeling
stardust as armor...

“ Perception “ ...

“ Perception “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Perception
blue green
and red
dependent
on beckonings
from retina cells

drawing
attention
to blue-
black dresses
pre-addressed
by grids of thick
oil sticks
shiny sickly
still lifes
lit brightly
smudged icing

unreconciled
cropped tightly
babbling anxiety
misaligned
side-to-side
igniting grease fires...

" New Optimism "...

" New Optimism "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

New optimism
felt keenly
and quickly

challenging
conventional
thinking
from behind
the scenes

teasingly frolicking
published anonymously
as both tantalizingly rich
and haphazardly hapless

across jagged expanses
of crackled dirt
speckled with saguaros

as the biggest draw
for straddling borders
divided by walls

over time immemorial
foaming water corridors
detained and deported
armored checkpoints

trespassing on lawns
green galaxies spinning
as unsatisfactorily
conjured quantum cosmology

like stick shifts slipping
incarnately begging to differ
via rotational symmetry

minus equilibrium
twisting and contorting
walling in gnarled quarks

atoms falling apart
into sharded
protons and neutrons...