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Joe Milford
Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer who is currently working on his EdD doctoral studies. He was born in Alabama in 1972, and he went on to receive his Bachelors degree from the University of West Georgia, in English and Philosophy, and then his MFA in Poetry from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010, and he is presently composing a collection of poems with Hydeout Press, forthcoming in 2015. He is also the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, where he has compiled an archive of over 300 interviews and readings with American and Canadian poets. He is also a member of the Southern Collective Experience.
three-legged dog
meth-head
bicycle chain
stretching wrack
elliptical
tarred and feathered
i don’t run
in those
kinds
of circles
all that was left
under that sheet
was two eyeballs
hung from few teeth
he found out
that day
the worst way
one could be
used
to be broken is
to be beautiful
is to be
broken
to argue is to stop a planet
from rotating
to argue is to start a planet
full rotating
a dog or dove
you are just as likely both
so you run
with feathers
in your mouth
to eat your own
shit
and call this
a
hunt