" Set Backs "...

" Set Backs "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Set backs
adapting happily
to gatherings between
old banyon trees
and raised fingers

in mid-summer
nights' dreams
with hand lettering
in stained glass

prancing up ramps
of practicality
being deemed top secret
while playing hide-and-seek
in case of emergencies

like stock markets crashing
during games of craps
as big-time swing bands
leap frog backwards
for somnambulists
with lighted white candles...