Tribute

" Tribute "

Rotating arms
and ducking
circling bodies
melt
into a soothing
pas de deux
in a moving
spousal tribute.

Ethos

" Ethos "

by Suzan Jivan

Incessant individual differentiation
unleashes a cascade of evoked
echoes of ethos in the quote, " If I'm
a hard ass, then you're a dumb ass".

Intoned

" Intoned "

by Suzan Jivan

An unerring knack
for operatic wails
and baritonal exhales
in drone-based notes
of multitoned solos.

Pious

" Pious "

by Suzan Jivan

Tonal shifts
in pious white
and black lullabies
dutifully beating time.

Backbends

" Backbends "

by Suzan Jivan

Except for the wonderful
year-round company
of incessant no-matter-what's
we end up with an all-of-a-sudden
backbend with legs shooting up.

Champ

" Champ "

by Suzan Jivan

A novicely backlit
reluctant discussant
begins whispering
with a subtle but
insistent principal.

Conjuring

" Conjuring "

by Suzan Jivan

Rare in rock
a coherent pop
from a long dark
conjuring of melancholy.