The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Noli Me Tangere

The beat of myriad doomings
lends a faintly compelling melody
to the height from which I muse 
in the light of the unsetting sun
untethered above the breakings of pines
no longer descendent never pierced
this bliss between blinking
you can whore paint in carnelian
and drag through the terrestrial regime
but sanguine is still the shade 
of dignity untouched.
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