The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Chimney-hearted

Uprushes the swirl of the molten
fused in the joy of avatars dancing 
across the wallpaper of ancestors smiling 
with ceiling-fallen cinder snow as warm 
as red-ochre stains on young skin
father-thumb-pressed into our forehead
of ambitions roiling into fire geysers
highlighting the crack in our chivalric
manners with precious kintsugi magma 
uneager to form a consecrated concretion
unwilling to choose an axis-swing or
tendency to spiral with circumnavigations
of our smallish primordial pond yet pooling
with unexpected proteins beautifully
finding their orbits on our astral tongue
swallowed into dragon blooded breath
spewing across the darkest matter, a 
stellar lightshow constellating refractions
into cosmic chandelier of shimmering embers
phosphorescing for a moment after the
hammer blow of colliding gas giants 
subsides into the steadiness of a yule
star sojourning north of more mangered-
latitude explorations where we toil
to return to our long awaited hobbit hole
thoughts churning with a curl of tobacco
smoke across the moustache of our
civility until our eyebrow raises once
again with epiphanic vigor and we depart
our groomed hide climbing between the
dour ramparts onto worded wings to soar
above.
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