The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Unharnessed and Hinged

Brother, let me don my dreamcoat
let the Abel bodied not fall 
for your mane shimmers in ultraviolets
though your khaki blood blends 
into the desert of rolling tells
and tends the cairn fire in the night
panning for gravelled exclusions
hushing the tolling of timepieces
so I may sleep in my glass crib
upon a branch abending
you stay the breach of sinews
amid a war of chest-beatings
and whisper equations of lullabies.
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