“ Individualistic Influences “...

“ Individualistic Influences “

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Individualistic influences
medicinal in internal stillnesses
priest-ridden rituals stressing
striking differences due to over-empathy

exhibiting knitted brows
outlined outlier eyes
unfreezed immobility
seen in low relief

more pliability sheerly
staggering inhabiting
collapsing ziggurats
like characters on clay tablets

concerning the trappings
of the hereafter richly endowed
largely vast factors
due to random chance

transmitting a god’s commands
keepings of details
serving as schematically static
stand-ins rapidly turning on lathes

along processional paths
growing in angular diameter
yielding massive statuary
all in avoidance of distraction

modeled after addition
rather than subtraction
gazing between branches
with wide-eyed fascination

gathering soft materials for casting
tantalizing inlaid panels overlapping
human and deific interactions
surpassing idle chatter

paradoxically cut in half
atop stone slabs
incrementally
ever-expanding...