by Suzán Jiván
for Stanislaus Dubowski
Conceptually transparent
and visually too cute
yet relatively modest
when spottily peppered
with rigorous bits of cynicism
across stretching vinyl pink
looking and feeling
like raw enveloping skin
across the arching gateway
of a sorting-out phase.
by Suzán Jiván
for Stanislaus Dubowski
Aesthetically progressive
baring big-nosed masks
and helmeted extras
in a formal tour de force
of the topically modern
artist's artist.
by Suzán Jiván
for Stanislaus Dubowski
Declining to identify
just shy of the high
from a different time
when a passerby
could mimic
an original
continuum.
by Suzán Jiván
Tepid at best
skittish selling
and high estimates
for two women dressed
in bubble-gum colors
bought by a bidder
drastically different
in miniature.
by Suzán Jiván
Hilariously gruesome beauty
veering between dainty and crude
in a cacophonous room
just about anywhere
after the sale
of the last
test of the past.
by Suzán Jiván
for Stanislaus Dubowski
Quintessential celebrity
pronounced dead
having spent
the spectacle
of infectious energy.
by Suzán Jiván
Places to press the flesh
where " wikiwiki "
means " to hurry "
and a call results
in an abrupt hang-up.
by Suzán Jiván
The production pulses
with a decent buzz
as a tale of something
from a dot-com bubble.
by Suzán Jiván
Hushed introspection
with equally ambient
bits of swing
coincidingly
dark and whispery
in an ominous
peripheral fog.
by Suzán Jiván
Interlocking
with greater fluidity
toward dissonance
emphasizing
harmonic clashes
and vaguely jazzy
bare bits of timbre.
by Suzán Jiván
Laced with fault lines
and armored convoys
clashing between
originals and copies
in an effects-ladened opus
of odious leftovers.
by Suzán Jiván
Noisily outspoken
and all-around
painted lips
over leathery chins
unfolding slowly
in phantasmagorical
metaphors sliding along
to the lulling point
of whiplash force.
by Suzán Jiván
Not long after elsewhere
is the very circumstance
of a damsel's helmet hair
adding the heir
of a ragtag newscaster
speaking in the shrinking
space between
the real and the fake.
by Suzán Jiván
Showing up unexpectedly
dominating the conversation
with the many ways of shared disdain
for proselytizing the stark gospel
of bootstrap revolutions
with home-grown ringtones.
by Suzán Jiván
Busily energetic
yet full of dead ends
lovely but lifeless
in need of rewrite
or revival
able-voiced
but otherwise
underqualified
for vivifying
a legend
that never dies.
by Suzán Jiván
Together uninterruptedly
struggling to shuck off
longstanding defaults
of barroom singalongs
staunchly marching
to the fore of a high-
minded contrivance.
by Suzán Jiván
Amid it all a figment
of a sort caught
between crumbling
fetid ghettos
hardly ever
ducks the club
of uncontested finesse.
by Suzán Jiván
Achieving astonishing
contrasts of scale
besides small details
amid it all
rockets launch
between two points
unleashing concussive waves
and reverberate into fables.
by Suzán Jiván
A few inauthenticities
in a Platonic shift
of an apparition
making the air quiver
part bouffant
causing alarm.
by Suzán Jiván
Floating in jump after jump
surpassing the pulse
of ravishing simplicity
wrapped neatly
in a deceptively savvy
rippling collapse.
by Suzán Jiván
Irksomely elliptical new ways
for biochemicals to self-assemble
in soberingly-anxious portrayals
of inorganic matter emerging on Earth.
by Suzán Jiván
At the pinnacle with an iron grip
of sacred victories in distant cities
swelling with scarlet dissidents.
by Suzán Jiván
Clench-jawed hard-liners
swarm flowery rivals
subsuming into one
do-it-all position
made from the bene-
volent enigmas
of hedonistic hippies
lined up as tie-dyed
smiley headliners.
by Suzán Jiván
A telling sign machine designed
with unifying friction to within an inch
neatened up and flattened out
against a darkened background.
by Suzán Jiván
Entirely taped
edited and broadcast
in a war zone
easily distracted
hardly starved
ever mindful
yet, inevitably
tongue-in-cheek
excellent, slangily.
by Suzán Jiván
The look of past
visibly ageing
lazy, sun-soaked days
with a modern take
spotting benefits
by the day
at the nearest cafe
in the face of a fragrance.
by Suzán Jiván
Real talk of a sea change
outstripping the pace
of unleashed victories
by flooding the streets
with happy distractions
where the atmosphere
is far removed
from an upscale
lithe force
of cold calls.
by Suzán Jiván
Given carte blanche
despite long odds
heavy on bling
and binge commodities
acknowledging secrets
of high-mindedness
as dead-serious
apocalyptical excess again.
by Suzán Jiván
Another uncertainty
uncontrolled legacy
acknowledging fragility
of varying strands
entirely abandoned
buckling dance.
by Suzán Jiván
Parting ways
paying full freight
as a hardball player
counting on
word of mouth
as fallout
with the barest
of details
in the luminous
dissonance
of an off-
kilter rhythm.
by Suzán Jiván
Spiraling enticingly
into mystical mélanges
of sultry ecstacies
hitting the stage
repeatedly being
outlined in neon green.
by Suzán Jiván
Considering allowing pleas
facing blank screens
over stark fears
of deteriorating
access to capital
in the aftermath.
by Suzán Jiván
Would surely have awed
masses of unabashed
cattails spreading across
capacious decades
of aerial plains.
by Suzán Jiván
Weather-beaten
green sequins
churn in motor-
mouthed streams
culminating
with composers
best known
for creepy
signature
themes.
by Suzán Jiván
Voicing sympathy resonating deeply
with hard-to-sustain brazen intonation
from always chasing rainbows
while simultaneously
swiveling to the stage
and impishly licking fingers
after limpidly singing slippery bits
of buttery bygone hits.
by Suzán Jiván
More artful teeming
as if with bees
digits within each
Mideast bigwig
Farsi speaker.
by Suzán Jiván
Joining the fray
in longtime
incarnation
moving freely
in and out
of odd meters
into elliptical
mood swings.
by Suzán Jiván
Everyday
procrastinators
see saw between
cross-eyed pessimism
and cock-eyed optimism.
by Suzán Jiván
Barely-mentioned
newly-reconstituted
crushing news
of unaccustomed
no-budge
mysteries to plumb.
by Suzán Jiván
After punishing stumblings
and loss of momentum-
a disparate patchwork
of fractious trappings
is magnanimously
filled in with perfect pitch.
