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.
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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
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