The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Corpseflower

Aging is an aloof instructor
in the dark arts of admiring
the fur of fallen oaks and
the spread of fairy blight 
beneath a starless canopy 
and the mephitic reek of mulm
sunken in a hog wallow morass
of sphagnum-sulphur-brimstone
moon-silvered in slug slime 
serenaded by silent slithering
across centipede staircases
and carrion beetle conclaves
that convene in the bitter mire
of an inky cesspool cauldron 
where stagnant soup steams in
a frigid fog of the dissipation
of what warmth day may bring;
here lulls the carnivore nestled
in tar pit dreams while a
sole vulture watches on unbroken
limb the blackened bud of
my forgotten corpse ready to bloom
into the blush of carrion corruption.
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