The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Plentiful

Winter paints with white blindness
closed eyelids aglow with the afterimage
of rusted maple rubies weeping into a pond 
of fanta oak garnets littering the sidewalk
of golden gingko jade fallen and aflutter 
like lemon plum blossoms beneath a reluctant moon
framed in the brown bark of waning wick
receding into a hoary hairline that belies the
curled furballs that warm tree bellies
whose naked arms bend earthward and strain
under the weight of the newfallen 
that blustered into drifts highlighting
tree edges and frost icing mushroom tops
that hide under a feast of leavings,
cornucopia of a season's turning.
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