With Plenty

" With Plenty "

by Suzan Jivan

Created with an eye
wanting to make a splash
emblazoning an image
with plenty of bidders
refusing solid food.

Explaining

" Explaining "

by Suzan Jivan

Explaining the total this way
headlines had little effect
said to be taking steps
courting potential.

Knowingly

" Knowingly "

by Suzan Jivan

Knowingly
allowing
a shrinking
of Wall Street
while trekking
up gray out-
croppings
making
idleness
look chic.

Sweeping Leaves

" Sweeping Leaves "

by Suzan Jivan

Flopping in polished oxfords
five sizes way too big
overhung by feces-
stained, frayed PJ legs
eyes facing different ways
while sweeping fallen leaves
beneath benches for the deceased
pleading, " I really need to work today.
You see, I've been sweeping
dead leaves since 1950."

The Ringer

" The Ringer "

by Suzan Jivan

Recurring
overflowing
but tightly run
through the ringer
rarely agreed
in a reedy, puffy
and spinsterish quip
of a strobe-lit infinitesimal
with the pyrotechnic infinite.

Inept Text

" Inept Text "

by Suzan Jivan

Raising a record as a frantic break
of fates remaining in an inept text
message sent to another cell
causing a catastrophic collision
due to an inattentiveness to red.

The Spitting Image

" The Spitting Image "

by Suzan Jivan

With a few peekaboos
and much-to-do
about VP's updos
along with spitting
into test tubes
at genetically-
engineered
saliva-collection
uptown events
storm victims
are visciously swept
into fetid spits
of the hardest hit
spotted by whirling birds
on raked rooftops
and naked bedrock.

Off Limits

" Off Limits "

by Suzan Jivan

Still off limits of continental rifts
with the competing myths
of promoting equity
and restless existence
with the unrest found in the West
by mitigating the uneasiness
between the cantankerous callings
of both strip mining and strip malls.

Nothing But

" Nothing But "

by Suzan Jivan

With nothing but
a thong underneath
the sense of urban history
and dueling with frontier modernity
it's no joke braving the blowflies
in a rugged state of mind
for many unpopulated miles.

With a Stint

" With a Stint "

by Suzan Jivan

Seeing a downward spiral
saying it wasn't worst case
once elected hiring friends
of ambition and reinvention
with a stint in a tricky transition
of discrepant presidential genetics
based on race, age and gender.

Buzz

" Buzz "

by Suzan Jivan

A muted view
bleached, grainy
and way predigital
made on the fly
broadening time
seemingly right
for right now
when buzz-
not history
is the subject.

Predecessors

" Predecessors "

by Suzan Jivan

Increasingly secretive
modern composites
of tempered soft metals
imbedded in the set cement
of front-stoop steps
cured yet always heading
toward a long-dead
predecessors'
measured missteps.

Stunted

" Stunted "

by Suzan Jivan

Bearing the brunt
of fishing and hunting
for an incumbent's
beloved stunted country.

Spelling Out

" Spelling Out "

by Suzan Jivan

Against energized denial
being unwilling to recede
after spelling out disagree-
ments rewritten deliberately.

Beacon

" Beacon "

by Suzan Jivan

Said to be seeking
the beacon of peace
spoken in a speech
while speaking unclearly
and deliberately
trying not to hear.

Blink

" Blink "

by Suzan Jivan

Poised to embrace
struggling at the plate
while describing
a favorite pastime
trying not to blink.

Resulting

" Resulting "

by Suzan Jivan

Needing to move to seize
resulting jolts of energy
bringing in stability
by rebuilding ruined ecologies.

Suddenly Post 911

" Suddenly Post 911 "

by Suzan Jivan

In an effort to counter
attempts to bow to pressure
unexpectantly ending
balking without backing
suddenly collapsing.

Bottoms Up - Double Down

" Bottoms Up - Double Down "

Signed agreements of overseeing
outlining the pointed linkings
of the tumble from bottoms up
with the troubles of double down.

Resurgencies

" Resurgencies "

by Suzan Jivan

Sampling realism's
resurgencies
rich in promise
with a little menace
but bringing distinct regrets
from the throbbing intensity
of a jackal's flawless panache.

Wreckage

" Wreckage "

by Suzan Jivan

Blunt power of special ops
from colliding particles
of wreckage from 9/11
held as artifacts
in a humongous hanger
for maintenance and repair
of passenger aircraft.

Fuzzy Slumber

" Fuzzy Slumber "

by Suzan Jivan

A new route
never mind
who helped
to rewrite
feeling like
a bridal icon
while snuggling
with fuzzy slumber.

Sparrows and Grackles

" Sparrows and Grackles "

by Suzan Jivan

Sparrows and grackles
all drinking and splashing
in standing water
on a lush park lawn
alongside a seated
short-haired female
sporting a sky-blue tee
stenciled with light-blue
letters reading , "tired"
across her pubescent chest
overlayed with abraided
shirts of chambray
draped over long-worn
narrow-waled pants
gleefully rolling
and smoking a reefer
silently reciting
memorized childhood
verses of The Bible
cracking a smile
while jiggling skinny limbs
and pursing stiff upper lips.

Omission

" Omission "

by Suzan Jivan

Rippling rhythmic tap beats
from the gripping grief
of the roots of an emus'
rudimentary wings
with largely-flightless
underpinnings
pitching in omission.

Targetting

" Targetting "

by Suzan Jivan

Into the fire
of a mysterious
midair disaster
trying their hands
at evincing
indisputable skills
spiked with prickly
dissonance
even hints
of serious
switching
to small feats
of companion pieces
with new releases
from lights flickering
in the premise
of predictable targetting.

Dished Out

" Dished Out "

by Suzan Jivan

Popularity of a hallucinogen
with dished-out flounces
quickly collapses
into convulsive laughter
on the pilotless aircraft
of ecological havoc.

Over Easy

" Over Easy "

by Suzan Jivan

Handshakes are out
businesslike embraces
are in along with
tightly-regulated
hugs and kisses
of largely-limited
conventional wisdom.

Revamping

" Revamping "

by Suzan Jivan

Influence displayed
rescue criterion
ultimately shrinking
underlings promising
epic revamping
of the predictably
unique envious rivaling
of slightly different hybrids
simply privatized by battle lines.

Retooling

" Retooling "

by Suzan Jivan

Comments to the press
from the awfully smitten
with tough-guy tactics
and chilling visions
from the high-strung
ruthlessly tightening
continuously retooling
not-too-distant future.

Chestnuts and Walnuts

" Chestnuts and Walnuts"

by Suzan Jivan

Struggling under the weight
of a late-summer's waiting
in anticipation of the date
of the falling of a spiked casing
during an autumnal coming of age
undertaking seasonal change.

Whimsy

" Whimsy "

by Suzan Jivan

A few options
had shrunken
into one
deepening
reminiscense
of trying
to soak up
every last bit
of spritzing whimsy.

X's and O's

" X's and O's "

by Suzan Jivan

Creased jeans and bling
owe their indebtedness
to the elegantly dressed
capital letters of female genes.

Afterthoughts

" Afterthoughts "

by Suzan Jivan

Blownup
life-size
passers-by
singing along
with jaw-
dropping
choruses
of mourning-
after after-
thoughts.

Up-and-coming Culprits

" Up-and-coming Culprits "

by Suzan Jivan

Looking baffled
when grappling
with the demands
of an erratic past
with a cursory
backward glance
and balking
at the thought
of having
to come
to grips
with up-
and-coming
culprits.

Face-Off

" Face-Off "

by Suzan Jivan

Intending to focus heavily
on state-by-state face-offs
putting into play laudatory
presidential portraits
with pronounced paunches
from making gut calls.

Masterly

" Masterly "

by Suzan Jivan

Dominated by animation
and fantastical challenges
with sacredness maintained
by shaping small prayer cakes
in a masterly fashion.

Coincidence

" Coincidence "

by Suzan Jivan

Beliefs intersect
in a spectrum
as seen in
a cineplex
while still
living in limbo
with episodes
of coincidence.