by Suzán Jiván
A number
of big names
take the stage
breathing relief
featuring sighing
yielding kaleidoscopic
oxygen as artists
Elevated on a small
inaugural pedestal
in an original
retrospective exhibition
flourishing commensurate
with memory
on a free-standing
hand-holdable scale...
by Suzán Jován
A desti-
nation as
it happens like
an enactment of bas
relief perfectly installed soothingly
decorous all along a far opposite wall
A wing
resembling
recent history
tapering toward
an inexhaustibly small
flexible point delicately strong
Converse as a semi-circular purpose
stacked vertically as happenstance
in a thread-bare tapestry
hanging awkwardly
like a life-size
portrait
An archive carved out then flattened
as solicitous facets silhouetted
conceptually against
severity...
by Suzán Jiván
for Edward
Mesmerized
by the glinting globe
levitating in dedication
to the consecrated
radiance of re-
creation as a new face
Fantastically late
romance acclaimed
for its clarity
with its mix
of simplicity
and charisma
in an instant
with the promise
of a call-and-response opera
Gazing steadily into a perpetually
flickering flame of significance
with contradiction measured
in seconds and mentioned
in revelations like candle flames
emanating life's laments
in silent light
Likely to strike
as a timely reassignment
of deeply satisfying smiles
outshined by undeniable
chaos of daily life
Star-spangled vagaries
like twee comedies
at once whimsical
yet perfectly serious
coming with tears
caught between
ideals and the imperial
Crowned as observed
chronicles lyrically conveyed
and beneficently celebrated
like a reliable guide
into a grand environ
The new wave
as a medal festival
with the folkiest fare yet
like the jovial regardlessness
of a thrashing vanguard
in the form
of a vaunted nautical song...
by Suzán Jiván
Free adaptation
as creative imagination
taking a fateful shock to awaken
a namesake from every layer
of an older generation
as animated ubiquitous natures
at hurried paces without reservation
Brightening giants inviting
tucked-away bravery as mitigation
for the disarrangements
of the everyday
waxing and waning
along maudlin byways
More appealing having seen
dashing ability to adopt
aberrant generosity
toward all-star qualities
born of melancholic frailties
Beyond the jokes
either industrious or lucky
hooking up long-running
one liners like dot-to-dot improv
And the beat goes on
as a mythic comic
increasingly kvetchy
with percussive etiquette
sold out for the run
as the hit-packed essence
of escapist entertainment
mostly enervating
Rocking to raise the radiance
of a gaudy good time
by pioneering larger-than-life
entertainment as the shining
of the hyperactively flashy
much like midlife...
by Suzán Jiván
A sigh of relief
featuring unique
city streets
in keeping
with sundry
symmetry
fluttery
and slightly fuzzy
like none other
More than one
not to be trusted
in the midst
of manipulative
Impishness
both tickled
and anxious
when addled
by laughter
as laid-back
giggly panic
One at a time
emerging
feeling like
a disparaged
and quirkily
amorous
distraction
like a three-
character fable
sharing a name
as an antidote
to malaise
distilled within
a politely
chilly distance...
by Suzán Jiván
Clearly having a blast
as a passel of hilarious
title characters in civics class
capturing genial slackers
as allegorical modalities of calamity
like lush harmonies
nodding to the bucolic
like the entirely seaside realities
of slightly dotting
spray-tanned caricatures
in a vast canvas
of uncanny enchantment
increasingly in demand
as garrulous galas
of selectively adapted
coercive old masters
in handfuls of painstaking details...
