The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Tangible Digits

We sieve through the dialectical
hoping to catch its yolk
tangible golden goo clinging to
our fingertips from the crackings of shells
we once trusted to define our progenerations, 
our clever contrivances and meticulous metaphors 
fashioning Calder's sheet metal mobiles
though we weigh only the balance and 
fail to apprehend the inertia of orbitals
or the potential of energies unleashed
in this way we numerate to delineate
and use clever nominations to feign
emotionless our rhethorical connivings,
passing over its beating heart and
failing to breathe.
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