“Tomorrow”

 “Tomorrow”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Tomorrow isn’t promised 

beyond the melodrama of darkness 

alive with wafting melancholy 

like remade body clocks 

co-opted by gnarly phenomenons

of transcendental dubstep dropping novelty ...

“Cosmic Debris”

 “Cosmic Debris”

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Cosmic debris

tailing streaming

sprinkling luminosity 

jettisoning expelling

expunging mysterious

fuzzy dust ...

“The Clock Stopped”

 “The Clock Stopped”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

The clock stopped for globetrotters

and comics living in thick fogs

with mixed-race prodigies 

writing sonatas

beneath heated spotlights

of secret societies 

poetry read in the sky

above Ellis Island ...

“End Points”

 “End Points”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

End points major spoilers 

like time-warped off-kilter bosses

unrecalling faltering voices 

having dropped the ball as poor sports 

seen synonymously as, “small”

all along catty-cornered scoreboards ...

“On the Brink”

 “On the Brink”

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

On the brink

strapped and struggling 

increasingly dire

having been once reliant

on mining outlying mountainsides

so tired of outsiders 

fearing rockslides

rural-urban divides 

in need of spot-on advice ... 

“Befuddling”

 “Befuddling”

by Suzán Jiván Mom 

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Befuddling to imagine 

from multiple angles 

thinking patterns 

engaging the diaphragm 

of a black panther’s

spare winding paths ...

“Immense Stakes”

 “Immense Stakes”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Immense stakes prominent debates 

“Just what is a ballet body?”

roles promised then taken away 

looking emaciated affecting change 

syncopation jazzy intonations 

traveling through space 

wings vibrating as pandemics rage ...

“Outsized”

 “Outsized”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Outsized impacts restricting rafts of voter access

ugly tactics after-the-fact challenges 

voter rights’ battles looming gerrymandering 

marked as, “A ballot gone bad” ...

“Splintering”

 “Splintering”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Splintering/fracturing/backbiting/finger pointing/rupturing shake ups/compounded revelations/ breaking away/coming into question/while lying in a rumpled bed/after being way way ahead/yelping, “Ewww, you should have kept that to yourself!”

“Pushing Lies”

 “Pushing Lies”

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Pushing lies

rewriting history in real time 

denying riotous mobs 

donning golden flip-flops 

marching colossal red carpets 

mocking alarming thingamabobs ...