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.

Maintenance

" Maintenance "

by Suzan Jivan

An echo reunited
yet ready-made
by the maintenance
of a fragile, sensitive
odd-sounding base.

Outset

" Outset "

by Suzan Jivan

Perhaps the most
sought-after action
was fulfilled at the outset
seldomly suggested
created in a consensus
of what-will-happen-next?

Incessant

" Incessant "

by Suzan Jivan

Every word uttered
invariably interrupted
by the spiky intensity
of thorny modernity
moving stylistically
in upside-down lifts
with legs scissoring.

Derivatives

" Derivatives "

by Suzan Jivan

Either disappearing
or facing immenent
spinning of legislated billions
from unshackled officials
with other exotic instruments.

Reshaped

" Reshaped "

by Suzan Jivan

Prepaving the way
in order to stake
a petty civil claim
for gracious
explanations
for paltry
portrayals
of vaguely-
reshaped
VP races
as agents
of change
versus
calamitous
degeneration
in amiable ways.

Shorthand

" Shorthand "

by Suzan Jivan

Cryptic shorthand
fascinating and maddening
written in a vaudevillian prison
filled from run-ins with cross-circuiting.

Perched

" Perched "

by Suzan Jivan

In the shadows
an astonishingly
vital spot-on
is perched upon
a chart-topping
quasi-reality
as pure poetry.

Breaks

" Breaks "

by Suzan Jivan

Strongly endorsed
giving weight
to the campaign
with a brief
handshake
and tax breaks
safely segregated.

Crunch

" Crunch "

by Suzan Jivan

Reflecting jittery optimism
hurriedly set up
with the damage done
from a credit crunch.

Able

" Able "

by Suzan Jivan

Pervasive unpassed legislation
negotiated through foreign
lobbies into safe havens
away from huge infusions
of congressional confusion
leading to black-and-blue
crewel removal of silk sutures.

Sweetening

" Sweetening "

by Suzan Jivan

Adding sweeteners
to temper bitter defeats
from behind-the-scenes'
discrepant panoplies.

Envisionings

" Envisionings"

by Suzan Jivan

In an act
a second
term begins
restricted by
an about face
of envisionings
with a much bigger bill
than any one individual.