The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
The Phenomenology of Possession

I am 
in your gaze
content
asymptotic to
the fire of your substance
the stone of your powers of transmutation

I am
but a dull dross 
failed ember of adoration
drawn to be proximate though never 
knowing the gnostic rune of your name
just a lost plumbic puddle pining to be gilded.
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