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.