The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Borrowed Yeast

Was it the cup of sherried berries
or the walnuts and spice bark
that inspired my honey wheat to rise?
Surely it was the butter bubbling to a glaze
to amaze and glisten the yolks,
humility found in the spinning 
of seed to satiety
thrown like the Potter into
the sweetness of spiral buns.
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