The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Bending Shellfish Spoons

stare and stare
I hear your entreaties to bare
stare and stare
grinding into grunts I dare
stare and stare
so shrinks the silvered unaware
stare and stare
towering over the candlestick pair
stare and stare
flaxen neck warmly fair glows
stare and snare
the wax runs in prayer of ardent plea
stare unsquare
drip now plop rare unearthed
spare the plod
the ember flare and free to unbind
the carbon from its drossy slag
tear the temple garments and 
into moonlit clearings dare
where oak trees genuflect to mice
and the mince of glyphic phonemes
that glitter with nacre and glee
as foreign bodies metamorph into
the strum of the fantastical and
we dine on the buttered caviar 
of lesser kings
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