" Quite Apart "...

" Quite Apart "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Quite apart from the ferocity
of personal histories
not considered "worthy"
yet moved by words
of young girls
during overland journeys

happy and carefree
dancing beside campfires
via violins' playing
running races making swings

throughout crossings
transplanting of families
wagon parties drawn by oxen
to far-off Oregon

bootstraps straw hats
our future rests
with checking
out the feathers
of bird aesthetics
when whales
weren't always
so immense

as babies in bassinets
with striking exceptions
across continents
being lured to frozen deserts

wind-blown grit
sculpting valley rims
footprints of scientists
subcontinents splitting
due to continental drift

left floating in pools
of salty liquid
planetary histories
of filter-fed gigantism
bowhead and fin
binging behemoths

marine creatures'
early beginnings
beneath ice sheets
yielding tremendously
big childrens'
chalk drawings

all along poured
concrete sidewalks
as glamorous gigs
for many a youngsters'
be wonderment
plus befuddlements
never begrudged...