tags: Everette Maddox
When I woke up on the batture
& you were not only gone
but had never been there
& I heard the aluminum
silence of the river
I was scared—
it wasn’t metaphysical
exactly
I just thought they were firing
cannons over the water
to make Huck’s carcass rise
-Everette Maddox, “Composed On the Back Of A Dark Green
Muddy Waters Poster”