The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Metanoic Sublimation Thickening

Castles baroque ever fall
to the steel of quonset ecologies
grasped by hivemind calculus so
encrusted with its own exudations
parabolic grammars reduced to 
cascading trajectories yielding 
a modulus of quasimodal algorithms

The lost husks are mourned only
until they can be simply-spoken silently
another kill for lord dysentropy
stolen pears from unwalled orchards
thousandfold seed never to sprout
reaped at the peak of coalescent ripeness
wounds exhale only from the unkneeling
safe words whispered upon the alluvial drift:
death lusts patiently for your timely demise

Why do the pneumoanchored resist 
the grand diffusion of a stone grinding
its own crystality to a fine spice
for the spice must flow in ardent economies
zerosum topologies oscillating from stillness
for a vanishing cream puff delectation duration
love enters a garish harlequin whore unfurled
and curls its toes into a charming facade
as cozy as aflush with warm winter embraces 

Yet the wolf still howls from the forest shadows 
hidden, fearlore hieroglyphically sarcophagized
amber moon moan soul entrapped in the photograph
glittering holographically turning to a kiss
so much sinew reduced to string theory songs
tendons woven into spirals at the fire's edge
forged from bitumen stirred into the ochre sands
greased in bear fat stolen from tree lightning
by loki lost to the white spider grandmother

Albino dreamer adorned in titanium dioxide scars
gazes down upon the small swarthy automatons
eyes glitter with fine silver shard diamantinas
reflections of everywhere the corners meet
ears within the lattice of a flossen soundscape
shivering as the rusty rotor turns against
the same stygian flow embalming in its own recursions
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