Interlocking

" Interlocking "

by Suzán Jiván

Interlocking
with greater fluidity
toward dissonance
emphasizing
harmonic clashes
and vaguely jazzy
bare bits of timbre.

Laced

" Laced "

by Suzán Jiván

Laced with fault lines
and armored convoys
clashing between
originals and copies
in an effects-ladened opus
of odious leftovers.

Intact

" Intact "

by Suzán Jiván

Left intact
as valid
in favor
of narrowing
the ground
and stretching
the statutory
when venturing out.

Disarming

" Disarming "

by Suzán Jiván

A few disarming moments
unfold slowly
cradled against shoulders
arrayed in rows
of ominous dominoes.

Outspoken

" Outspoken "

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.

Not Long

" Not Long "

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.

Ringtones

" Ringtones "

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.

Rewrite

" Rewrite "

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.

Longstanding

" Longstanding "

by Suzán Jiván

Together uninterruptedly
struggling to shuck off
longstanding defaults
of barroom singalongs
staunchly marching
to the fore of a high-
minded contrivance.

Uncontested

" Uncontested "

by Suzán Jiván

Amid it all a figment
of a sort caught
between crumbling
fetid ghettos
hardly ever
ducks the club
of uncontested finesse.

Amid It All

" Amid It All "

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.

Apparition

" Apparition "

by Suzán Jiván

A few inauthenticities
in a Platonic shift
of an apparition
making the air quiver
part bouffant
causing alarm.