Consensus

" Concensus "

by Suzan Jivan

Still lives
as unexpected
means of expression
identified online overnight
with the consensus
of stealing somebody elses.

Pace

" Pace "

by Suzan Jivan

Pace of change
as glacial
over the fireplace
of steel magnates
with cults
of male genius
in revelatory levels
of repetition
for effect.

Fractions

" Fractions"

by Suzan Jivan

Here to protect
take-care-of-yourself
palm leaf offerings
from long thin strips
in collapsible formats
of indivisible fractions.

Weapons

" Weapons "

by Suzan Jivan

Refurbishing
masterpieces
rewardingly
warding off
temporary
installations
of uneasy
bedfellows
hesitant
to sever
negligible
weapons.

Aiming

" Aiming "

by Suzan Jivan

Aiming to sway
as far away
from feelings of fate
by competing
with spreeful
hand wringing
and emphatic
saber rattling.

The Nod

" The Nod "

by Suzan Jivan

Taking aim
without provocation
accepting the nod
of a threatened promise
stirring conflict
imposing stiff
sunlit bigwigs.

Weighing

" Weighing "

by Suzan Jivan

Weighing
an unlikely
bid to rewrite
the often-described
forces behind
sparking closer to the eye.

Warding

" Warding "

by Suzan Jivan

Warding off
a massacre along
swarming warm
storm water
earlier lost.

Vast

" Vast "

by Suzan Jivan

Refashioned
vast stage
cutting language
with scrappy rage
making the case
failed to date.

Last Ray

" Last Ray "

by Suzan Jivan

The refrain
of raised fists
remaining uneasy
with sovereignty
restraining cultivation
tied to the states
good to the last ray.

Breakaway

" Breakaway "

by Suzan Jivan

A small victorious war
reclaiming a breakaway
in a tiny town of grain
not escaping the pain
swirling above the plain
of unexpected lengths.

Unworthy

" Unworthy "

by Suzan Jivan

Yearning
underneath
festive dresses
and luridly
colored heels
unworthy
and unavoidable
prickly things
waxing and waning
with salvation.

Wagging

" Wagging "

by Suzan Jivan

Living in wary intimacy
tongues wagging
with worrisome lulls
allowed to strut
with shrinking
girlish preening
when needed
piteously for cake and tea.

Twitch

" Twitch "

by Suzan Jivan

Deserving an enduring
similarly insular scandalous ritual
slashing a scarlet lipstick scar
with an anxiously catalystic twitch.

Honing Not Only

" Honing Not Only "

by Suzan Jivan

Honing not only
"may-awe, may-awe"
as a mating call in the pitch dark
tender-hearted intoxication
of a luminous staging
but the consolidation
of the actual with the fantastical.

Red Rimmed

" Red Rimmed "

by Suzan Jivan

Given the prickly
unstinting bitter rift
of eyes red rimmed
with connective tissue
captivating the fringe.

Peacock

" Peacock "

by Suzan Jivan

Headlined
by rage
staged
chanting
of frantic
pressing
demands
protesting
the dropping
of peacock
guano.

Ushering In

" Ushering In "

by Suzan Jivan

Hilarities and hypocracies
ushering in running from
tidbits and snippets.

Correctness

" Correctness "

by Suzan Jivan

An object lesson
in political correctness
more relaxed about
dissing it now
with a big thrill
and a hard think
living what we see.

Within

" Within "

by Suzan Jivan

Starting places
listening closely
to mushroom-
shaped struc-
turings of
difficulties
hidden within
eponymous
pavillions.

Refitted

" Refitted "

by Suzan Jivan

Low
quiet voice
just so
shrugging
at the whole
infused with
aloofness
voice dipping
slow drifting
refitted.

Desolate Murmuring

" Desolate Murmuring "

by Suzan Jivan

Desolate murmuring
heralding rebuilding
of improvisational
integral skills
of melancholy
whisperings
with intermingling
long-necked
four-stringed
jangling.

Tousled Locks

" Tousled Locks "

by Suzan Jivan

Tousled locks
of ancient art
blurring the lines
of buzzy inventiveness
with thriller written
calm homilies
in symmetry with
the underplaying dangers
of suavely-played
theoretical beings
elegantly conceived.

Deferred Dreams

" Deferred Dreams "

by Suzan Jivan

Deferred dreams
ill will lingering
after hostilities
into power grids
majorities insisting
on trendy
resemblances
on and off course
for the foreign born
over the course
of walking and talking
whittling away
inexplicably
catching sight
of a glittering skyline.

Adoration

" Adoration "

by Suzan Jivan

It begins and ends
with the sparest
of gestures
in plush textures
of tried and true
wrested music
in double bills
of clenched fists
skittering and flipping
in adoration of risk.

Labyrinth

" Labyrinth "

by Suzan Jivan

Lofty
orderly
ivy-
twining
mixing
styles
thriving
inside
high-
hedged
labyrinths
of wood-
land nymphs.

Sacred

" Sacred "

by Suzan Jivan

Hazy
arty
psycho-
logical
nuance
like
the sky
at dawn
or sunset
as the
striking
of a
sacred
refrain.

Riveted

" Riveted "

by Suzan Jivan

Sitting riveted
with persistent unease
in a new openness
driven by tight-
lipped discipline
unshackled by limits
of seismic shifts.

Rapture

" Rapture "

by Suzan Jivan

More rapturous
separate sets
briskly tumbling
clarion notes
rich and propulsive
hulking thumps.

Endpoints

" Endpoints "

by Suzan Jivan

Endpoints
along
other
lines
faltering
and
shrugging
off
an almost
overly-
cautious
numbness
and
tingling
after
sleeping
a full
season
in a
padded
bag.

Breadth

" Breadth "

by Suzan Jivan

Entire breadth
of lonesomeness
on the front steps
of a nestled epicenter.

Nearly

" Nearly "

by Suzan Jivan

Favorable remarks
from a majority
at the last stop
in a ceaseless clangor
of final dreams
watching egos
stream increasingly
over years of nearlies.

Days

" Days "

by Suzan Jivan

Ruin and renewal
with predictions
real and imagined
of patchworks
with still-visible
minerals slipping
in unison with
statures given
short shrift
at the ready
with brevity.

Zip

" Zip "

by Suzan Jivan

Beguiled
by an eye
to survival
playful
minimally
self-guided
white zip ties.

Elixir

" Elixir "

by Suzan Jivan

Switched on overhead
an instructive introduction
to the not-potent-enough
elixir of ticking and gusting
over bordering rings
pulled shut and pulled out
with precise timing
up to the starting line.

Conventions

" Conventions "

by Suzan Jivan

Still far off in club levels
strict directives, strenuous events
and unexpected prevalences
of donkeys and elephants.

Bolder

" Bolder "

by Suzan Jivan

A varied ambience
classically speaking
mixing the scholarly
sometimes amusing
sometimes stilted
quirky versions
of velvety tones
for cajoling big toes
into better and bolder
but woefully scant
eclectic coasts.

Tilt

" Tilt "

by Suzan Jivan

Varied, overflowing
lineups from highlights
of party-sponsored big shots
for presumptive nominees
schmoozing for antipoverty
in long spells of drawing
slighty smaller and tilting toward
inaugural offerings for the top drawer.

Awareness

" Awareness "

by Suzan Jivan

Serious pleasures
portraying themselves
as able helmsmen
taking big steps
into something
resembling
being crammed
into the rafters
of collective
awareness.

Insuitive

" Insuitive "

by Suzan Jivan

Tracing just a few days
back in the day
with the contra-
diction embracing
polemic confrontation
of a wayward
blobby big baby
crooning to
the insuitive
man in the moon.