Mudlark No. 47 (2012)

Witches & Devils

Whose hobgoblins now? These are the old-time base of the brain beliefs 
winched up from the deepest well of what we are, broken stumps tangled 
with tupelo roots & the kind of mud that can talk to ghosts, in king snake, 

magpie, & harm. It’s a wild world, & this is its first parade. Three men
stepping creole through a Louisiana swamp playing a feral march music 
like a swarm of bees. Neutral is a nothing word. They are already here,

they are already coming, that’s your ass, on the road ahead. Step heavy.
Perched in a fork of a dead cypress tree a screech owl shrieks into flight.
When sundown settles, & the fires break out their scratch & start to feed.    

Jeffrey Little | Gone
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