" Mired "

" Mired "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Mired in infighting over climate declassified
heightened anxiety via baptisms by fire
while steering 4-wheel drives
into pared-down environments

smoky global skylines
spheres conjuring viruses
jagged shrinking shorelines
limited human lives

never-quite re-quieted
by abstracted lines along low-tide
dark horizons bleached white
travel diaries written on deadlines

something of improbable cottage industries
spotting the floppiest flops as worthwhile curiosities
leapfrogging gossip columnists bottleneck strikes possible
for personal shoppers identities desolving in matter-of-fact plots

like scavenged ships-in-bottles full of hardships
left unacknowleged and unstoppered by trashy goings-on
leaving nothing to chew on
except helicopter napalm from spinning choppers

pumped-up blockbusters featuring monsters
Godzilla versus King Kong
tragic captors other-half prowesses
rouéing rainy weather

meteorological misadventures obsessive storytelling
incringing bitternesses merged lessons of history
predictive terrible endings capricious tortured memories
relentlessly rolling closing credits...