A bad woman
is a maze.

A good woman
is a braid.

She wants you to find her
either way.

That secret language and architecture.
She speaks labyrinth.

I speak rune.
We twine soon.

# # #

Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010. He is the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, a co-founder of BACKLASH PRESS, and the editor of RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread (a literary journal of poetry). Read more here: http://jmilford2005.wix.com/josephvmilfordpoet

Photo credit: Terri Malone