" Separated and Bound "...

" Separated and Bound "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Separated and bound
long in the ground
long in the tooth

bare rooted
slant-lettered tombs
of insufferable blues

unceasingly reimagined
as ancestrally classical
everlasting tragedies
of undying sadnesses

cemented familial statuses
sandblasted in granite
as acronyms
of individual histories:
D.O.B., D.O.D., R.I.P.

perennially
"pushing up daisies"
fragrantly blanketed
herbaceous graves...