“ Scrawls and All “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“ Scrawls and All “

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Scrawls and all
resurfaced recordings
calls for a “wee shade less”
in one section
wildly unconventional
garrulous progressions
increasingly obsessive
no matter how breathless
with interpretive discrepancies
written as mock letters
as anything but effortless
carrying out painstaking editing
seeking the ordinary in the eccentric
speculative fictionalized segments
while clowning around with friends
and making the spread just for emphasis
with experimental mini-festivals
mixing intimacy with intensity
generating elegant energy
shifting incrementally
as skittering mercurial entities
improvising together
inevitably remembering everything
neither pretending nor regretting
entering noirish realms ...