" Highly Regrettable "...

" Highly Regrettable "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Highly regrettable
only slightly memorable
upended revelry
heard perplexedly
while racketing overhead
headed toward saccharine pastels

camouflaged as necessary
pulverized oyster shells
as aquatic scents from blue depths
along hometown edges
of familial referents

tent-pole concepts
of tendencies lest anyone forget
what's in front of them
as circumspectly "momentest"
best of intentions

becoming motionless and still
incomplete pictures of timeless images
of only slightly hinted performances
all in new forms in memorium

inward-outward glory floating grace
more likely to flee than to chase
favoring the wary over the brave

firmer less playful feeling sorely afraid
seeking to be saved cells lighting up our brains
campfires ambiguous prey collecting data
of predation unable to escape

leopard eagle snake reawakening
past generations of displaced behaviors
barely mutilated modulated
in amygdala orchestrations

vulnerable afraid eliciting a once-sacred
ghostly landscape brilliantly bathed
with the forces of sudden revelation
having gone well beyond the grave...