" Summoning Memories "...

" Summoning Memories "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Summoning memories
evoking heartstringed eras
over years and years
of tears and tears

downstream
of celebratory
memorabilia

flooding stringed
light-lined streets
hanging needly
evergreen wreaths

staging live Nativities
spinning dreidels
" dai-dia-anu
dai-dai-anu
dai-dai-anu
dai-dai-anu
dai-dai-anu "

marching in place
re-thinking
re-configuring arenas

having once
been inaccessible
from the streets

re-opening
with actual
greenery

growing beneath
our moving feet
keenly nurturing
groundskeepers

weaving together
thinly bladed fields
sprouting from
dormant seeds

saved
from previous eras
of native species

preserving
our horticultural
history

via scientific
academic means
like the greening
of our intellectual genes

baton-wielding
band leaders
banners streaming...