The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Rogatory Pond

Do the gentle koi,
chilling in your word salad
pond covered in the leaves 
of your carefully chosen 
nouns, taste the tannic tea
that diffuses and drifts down
upon them as they gargle moss
and the piquancy of the errant fly?
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