“A Green Spot in a City”

 “A Green Spot in a City”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

A green spot in a city where séance leaders 

get their degrees and actors

don’t play their roles subtly

simulating flings beneath tasseling trees …

“Commiserating”

 “Commiserating”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Commiserating with riffing memes 

as legacies for family trees 

along ancient streams 

situated squarely between 

water and land on the heel of a trail 

spawning scans in labs teeming with plants 

blurred between fins and hands 

immutable and static as octopuses and crabs …

“Stepping Up Stepping Back”

 “Stepping Up Stepping Back”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Stepping up

stepping back

working magical 

yards after the catch 

as no accident 

at the draft’s 

checkpoints en masse

tabulating Yin ‘n’ Yang …

“Reverberations”

 “Reverberations”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Reverberations from climate change 

netting flapping bats and trapping mammals

in order to combat spreading pathogens

leaping over species barriers 

on an plague infested warming  planet…

“Owning Up to It”

 “Owning Up to It”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Owning up to it 

“You can bet on it!”

as a strategic Martini option 

deemed “metaphorical knowledge”

“I’m on it!” …

“Hushed and Charred”

 “Hushed and Charred”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Hushed and charred fly-ashed despondency

wailing, “All gone!!!” as a hot head’s response 

to the loss of cindered objects 

offering little or no solace seeing zero options 

as cockeyed optimists insist,

“We WILL rebuild!!!” 

smack dab in the middle

of points of convergence …