The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
An Affable Turning

A word is a protein coursing through veins
that gush past the skepticism of receptors,
too often swallowed by the intractability of
our macrophagic credulity determined
to be a tumbler unturned
unwavering in our Philistine obtuseness
we swallow youtubes of the maudlin and mawkish
while revolving from the sympathetic
awaiting our next dopamine dose
ears fallen mute and untickled
helpless we await the aligning of biorhythms
and a chance encounter of the profound
when the pelting of phonemes arranges into
a tracing upon our mind's wall,
we auger the august as we unpack our unfetteredness
and tremble with the resonating of the revealed
as our entrails tic and strain under
the dawning of an affable understanding.
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