“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 …

“Offering No Breakthroughs”

 “Offering No Breakthroughs”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Offering no breakthroughs raising human 

rights abuses zooming into the mushy middle 

attempting to live up to the biggest of ambitions 

by running hut-to-hut in the wilderness 

while buying lift tickets and weighing in

with ethicists of social justice as the best gift

being depleted of its inner energies 

like many believed-to-be supposed evergreens …

“Tweaked”

 “Tweaked”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Tweaked to yield deep shades of pink

increasing hardiness via prickly leaves 

targeting breeding shared among species 

as flash cards informally paid to be 

in an audience all along

plus a punny name for a hardware store 

“See you in the early morn—gone power walking” …

“Sending Trees”

 “Sending Trees”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Sending trees crashing in pre-dawn hours 

“Something extreme happened 

to cause this much damage”

boats resting on land 

airplanes flipped 

into cataclysmic wind ditches 

ending up in  photo finishes …