The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
The Adjudication of Evidence

As we perambulate cosmic complexities
and tread intentionalities to understand
self-similarities and apparent symmetries
our heaving matter suffers the economizations
of its sugar pickling and spices 
hastens to sort features into chunks 
addicted to its rampant labelmaker names
slapped across the forehead of the procreating
its sensors too coarse to apprehend linearity
and so settle for logarithmic approximations
stained with the prognostications of intuition
and projections of our sharper edged
neurons so slowly boiled we leap not 
for if we comprehended how dimly we see
we would quiet our echo chamber to 
a glass lake and supercool our appetites
until the tingling stops and we can see
the approaching of fireballs and prophets
who with no vested interest tumble by 
in the play of jubilation that is the space
between cataclysms and contractions
in such moments evidence is the touchstone
to divine the next wellspring from our
fountain of youth imaginings that cast
the beauty of nature in garish whore paint
longing to salivate instead of silently sit
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