“Tossing and Catching”

 “Tossing and Catching”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Tossing and catching/as back-and-forth gravity

of adaptive re-imaginings/tapped and clicking 

answers for long-standing failing romances/like 

changing castings/associated with hackneyed 

baggage/against a forbidding backdrop/sounding 

sorrowful ballads and heart-rending tales/enduring

ill-treatment of the hands/pushing back

at offensive caricatures …