The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Indefatigable

Even the mouse maze of the apophatic
is but a treadmill in cardinal crimson 
a Sisyphean engine combusting dopamine
as if it were heaven-bent rocket fuel
while the secret lies at the tide's edge
legs closed and lifted by floodwaters
with a mapless trajectory to gibraltar

Leviathan's bellyache turns lost souls
into ambergris, yearning beachcomber's bliss,
encrusted with sea glassy shimmers hiding
the blackened bezoar of countless distillations
of starlight and carbon intentions deeply
inhaled with a confounding redolence unlocking
intuition's instinctive penchant for curves

Everything is remnant and lingering traces
for us reminiscently pointing up and away
compounds of the atomic elementals with hot
and steamy breath smirking with their reversals
of unseen obedience crossed with solemn
adoration of the vast blossoming of eternal grace
an impish condensation of the ardently 
indefatigable.
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