" Figured "...

" Figured "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Figured decorations
executed in glossy black
on fired clay
durable impervious
and attractive chariots

particularly malleable
skilled hands
sometimes fantastic
often imaginable
as if on a lathe
of good to bad

two horizontal handles
pints or gallons versus flasks
land creatures absent
communities collapsing
into ill-drawn patterns

less angular abstract
fishes birds animals
real and imagined attributes
as thunderbolts of Zeus

super human figured works
legendary terms covered surfaces
superfluous match-stick limbs
shinx and griffin persistent myth

self-evident incidents
inadequate in precision
predominate miniature
orange-brown slip...