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Poetry

Myth in Your Head

Julie Funderburk

The famed bull-headed man        probably isn’t real

        probably is just a man        was he always like this                    

or did he change        each narrow passage

        turns into a question        posed by the next 

while his bellow        reverberates                    

        he stays hidden        remember why 

the labyrinth got built        an inscrutable design                     

        enough about him        you’re the one 

sweating it out in a closed alley        leading yourself in
Photo of Julie Funderburk.

Julie Funderburk

Julie Funderburk is the author of The Door That Always Opens (LSU Press, 2016) and a chapbook, Thoughts to Fold into Birds (Unicorn Press, 2014). Her poems appear in The Southern Review, Ecotone, Pleiades, and Cave Wall. The recipient of fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she teaches at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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