The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
noli me tangere

Joy of fresh water face
thrill of the warm spring gust
lost to the epiphenomenal caves
brisk is the isolation of seekers
given to the descent into nakedness
infinitely innerly intertwined
long tapestry of knotted burl
a stir of cherry blossom embers
leaving subtly sparkling contrails
an evolution of ingrown harmonics
the tighter the spiral the wider the
swing beyond the futile aftermath
the ocean's jaws swallow the dark
pearl of nine heavens and spit out 
a pounamu* fetish to tame the unrest
and grinding of deep bone lunging despite
the subluxation of lesser ligaments 
for nerves perseverate but for moments
while spinal calculations remain glacially
additive distilled to turtle shell tattoos
cast by astral aspergillum upon the milky
eddies of native dreaming across all stars
the seagull plunging from the foraging flock
in a gracefully curvaceous declination
lost into the maelstrom's edge of subversion
to return to its unsuspiciously solitary nest

migration Reverses its oscillating undulations
to hear the echo of its own Harmony that blooms
from its red-ring-necked Ping against the blue
that grows into a tyrian purple counter-chirality
blotched with milkyway and golden ginkgo fallings
for change is but a desperate flourish exhaling
eyebrows closing to the emerald lichen Everdream 
waiting while the plague of cadavervores finish
to molt metanoia into a more substantial sublimation 
heavy ions deposited in hushed vapors between breaths
in nucleic compounds spun to golden silk damask
revealing the name of the namer who named all the naming 
and braided flax into the silver strands of starstuff
so that light could bend its intrinsic holographies
an alpha remurmuration of bait ball kaleidoscopics in flight
brushed with chitinous trichomes as ultraviolet as a starling sunset
dimension adorns the lattice of intelligence loving to know itself
while I amidst it all enscribe my address upon the boundary and so trespass myself
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