The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Stricken

Words like hammer strikes
careen off the truth
landing against the unintended
sintering the subconscious
into a dendritic malefaction
never to know how deep or
how many thoughts spun in
the cloud chambers of minds
encased in panoplies of 
beliefs rusted by dogma
dreaming of wildfire sparks
to fuse schematic shackles
into the dross of instinct
unharnessed into the 
spoken.
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