Said to Set

" Said to Set "

by Suzan Jivan

Said to set
but unlikely to select
the most impressive
experiment
in a labratory meant
to seize on new content
at the edge.

Running Mate

" Running Mate "

by Suzan Jivan

A common touch
newly emboldened
surface-to-surface
talks on security accords
with gradual withdrawal
as a bait and switch
radiated running mate.

Elsewheres

" Elsewheres "

by Suzan Jivan

Seemingly ubiquitous
often blistering
wielding shovels
and hammering nails
into dangerous elsewheres.

Ever Changing

" Ever Changing "

by Suzan Jivan

Sustainability
that aims
at childlike play
even if fake
unbidden sunbathers
whir overhead
in ever- changing
daytime constellations.

Safety

" Safety "

by Suzan Jivan

Serendipitous formations
pausing high up on facings
winging off to safety
in perfectly-shaded
rectangles of skyscrapers.

Faded

" Faded "

by Suzan Jivan

A gasp-inducing shift
in the amplified frisson
of a big, booming
singing voice
squeezing cheeks
reducing roundness
under the aegis
of the promptly faded.

Impact

" Impact "

by Suzan Jivan

Lifelike
multishaded
renderings
of unwilling
recipients
of unsought
visions
defined
from
normalcy
but defied
by gravity
still reeling
from lack
of impact.

Glint

" Glint "

by Suzan Jivan

Layers of shyness
steeped in longing
brainy, not brawny
a waifish tomboy
in a middling comedy
with a maniacal glint
and perfectly adequate
sculpted lips.

Siege

" Siege "

by Suzan Jivan

A sense of siege
weapon wielding
disquieted minds
jeapardizing
sprinkling white
vinegar on bodies
raging outside
proselytizing
with heavy
red wine.

Copyrighted

" Copyrighted "

by Suzan Jivan

Prodigiously gifted
strikingly irrealistic
allegorical figure
grappling between
high cheekbones
and piercingly bright
copyrighted blue eyes.

Fabled

" Fabled "

by Suzan Jivan

Forced to renegotiate
in an emotional disarray
unwilling and incapable
of transposing or translating
after a fabled phalanx
of heavily-armored tanks.

Halting

" Halting "

by Suzan Jivan

A halting path cobbled together
with acknowledged, "aw-shucks"
and artfully kitschy, "golly gosh gee".

Buckshot

" Buckshot "

by Suzan Jivan

Once considered
a buzz word
for buckshot
bombardment
in cacophonies
of cleaning clocks
for big shots on target.

Blunt Comfort

" Blunt Comfort "

by Suzan Jivan

Blunt comfort from
one word to the next
feeling aggressive
bashing a whiplash of snare
with high-hat accents
jacked up and wrangled
floating slow over fast.

Just Alike

" Just Alike "

by Suzan Jivan

More timely
secret lives
not surprisingly
worshiped and reviled
in the spotlight just alike.

After Glory

" After Glory "

by Suzan Jivan

After glory
loud claps
of the past
with filthy hands
in tandem
ramshackle
shaking fists
and swaying
with abandon
in sharp contrast
from the flubbing of
an occasional passage
to the multihued clarity
of the ravishingly
beautiful fluttering rapidly.

Friends

" Friends "

by Suzan Jivan

In close proximity
to a commanding glance
near lap-dance
panting and giggling
in hand-picked casting's
mind melds for best friends.

Mimicry

" Mimicry "

by Suzan Jivan

An unexpected
gift for mimicry
rarely pulling punches
against artistic timidity
with biting wit and rants
against conformity
bopping and weaving
contrapuntally
in large chunks
of aesthetic distancing
from a ravenous id.

Regimes

" Regimes "

by Suzan Jivan

Giant regimes
surely seem
bound for
the trash heap
largely between
lane markings
and disturbing
the peace
with uppity
prowess and prestige
enduring never-
ending belittling
by breast beating
and airing grievances.

One-hundredth

" One-hundredth "

by Suzan Jivan

A minor but telling
skirmish in the world
scratching off and slapping on
an uncomplicated gold charm
in an electronically-clocked
minuscule margin
of one-hundredth of a second.

Outlined

" Outlined "

by Suzan Jivan

Largely unchanged
touching off
a long stand off
over wide swaths
of the newly occupied
after intense fighting
with an ice-breaking ally
as a healing garden divides
at rock-bottom prices
frozen in time.

Hyperactive

" Hyperactive "

by Suzan Jivan

Hyperactive grandchild
of the square-jawed
five-and-dime
lured by a sign of 99
as the fur flies
in the cheap
and long-lasting times
of the slightly higher.

Punchlines

" Punchlines "

by Suzan Jivan

Rewinding history
with newly-resurgent
head trippers
dropping opposition
to offshore drilling
using punchlines
of hard times.

Weak Ends

" Weak Ends "

by Suzan Jivan

Nominations next for world records
revising cease fires and determining
the ceilings of peacekeeping
for the commanders in chiefs
setting off for early weak ends.

Headway

" Headway "

by Suzan Jivan

Making headway
state-by-state
with the sound
of scrambling
fighter planes
as retaliation.

Concealed

" Concealed "

by Suzan Jivan

Barely concealed
by resentment
dressed in a vividly-
evident party dress
striving for a
ritualistic spell
of intricately
expressive gestures
with a passing
drowsy-eyed wink
flirty and flighty
ripely conceived
saturatingly revealed
but beyond easy reach.

Patina

" Patina "

by Suzan Jivan

A softer patina
of fuzzy generalities
with popular tactics
of quoting selectively
and seeing mirror imagery
in the explication of fiction
without frivolous tradition
as a continuum
of given glimpses
from contradictory
figures in remnants
from the violet end
of the spectrum.

Iconic Climax

" Iconic Climax "

by Suzan Jivan

Lunging into the future
by violating high culture's
time-consuming rules
with quick, skillful
absurdist kitsch
and the already
happening grand
clashing of tantalizingly
high hybridized icons.

Still Within

" Still Within "

by Suzan Jivan

Still within city limits
a diptych in green
paying homage
to the beaches
between vintage
adaptive psyches
welded together
in serpentine tiers
of plush theater seats.