The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Buffalo White

How masterfully woven the 
the ancestry of the individual 
as wide as the Tree of Life may grow
yet a singular glimmer of Guf,
the unnamed enumeration,
of the irrational numeral 
tattoo'ed behind our ear 
an arcane reminder of 
our unary existence 
the starfire that bleachs
our ruddy nature into
a newfallen baptism into
the Multitudinosity that 
flows upon the Great River

Baby bison bellows with obsidian eyes 
safe so long as winter endures
sign and symbol of the unimpossible
soon the herd will tire of the 
braying of unseen grasses but
the promise will remain
threaded between the beads of being
is the dignity of the self-aware
and so shall prosper the unviable
in ways unpredictable yet
awesome to behold even once
in a lifetime.
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