The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
The Triumph of Teacups

Gruel of leaf and ever-eye
brewed bezoar to befuddle or belie
Watery radiant temperment of
a prosapient salient supply.

Quaffed into a transfigurement
colors drain constrain or collude
spectral revelation wafts the mind
until brilliancy tires into nude.

Ruminate upon buttery biscuits 
Attend the existential banquet
Toast the teacups til they shatter wet
til the rocks cry tranquil.

Pour out luxuriant libations
baptise the first three 
like virgin lovers that stumble
pierce creation's tree.

And at the end, we sit 
upon the stump of eternity
tears refusing to fall
spent into inevitable sleep.
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