The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Parlor Tricks of Introspection

Your reflection fractures to tetrahedrons
scored by an idiot conducting the dragon kitten
to gather bags of chihuahuas with shaking eyes 
each drooling tongue pressed against the 
glass bottom boat made yellow submarine.

Your features grow umber mossy dendrites:
a nose nestled between pungent bifurcations
skyshot into florescences of caricatures,
lips orbisculating at each dogmatic chimera
conjured from naked purloins unclothed,
the temples of Artemisian rememorations and
the land of lost focus and clouded aquamarine.

Your corpus swells round the asymptotic eyes
voluptuous spirals folding over the yesternavel
scars stretched by chronic tectonics unleashing
untethered ejecta of an evolution outward,
the porcelain bondage of handpainting ultramarine.
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