Suzán Jiván

Tucked Away

Tucked away long before
as free-streaming folklore
without a cause
like the all-important
excellently performed
in leotards and shorts
with male-female support
reinforced as scarcely the point

entangled in something more
than a genial grin
put at risk by bestowing a kiss
without a conscience

tinged with a fiddle
and a pianist’s plink
in full-length mink
while pimping with the wee perversity
of underpinned forgiveness
hidden beneath a bearded
chin…

Suzán Jiván’s poems have appeared in Frog Pond and the Poetry Ink Anthology. She has performed her poetry at The Moonstone Arts Center, Fox Chase Reading Series, Poets and Prophets and Big Blue Marble Book Store.