“Striking Out”

 “Striking Out”

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Striking out into new directions 

becoming evident in retrospect 

within tenderness as remnants 

of sentiments redirected

into the fertile inventiveness 

of the wholly unexpected 

conjuring optimism 

within the geometry 

of universality 

envisioning mystical meaning 

in the nonsymmetry 

of infinite complexities 

bourne as memories …