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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...

At Cornwall Furnace

...more. Promises of love and forevers mural its inside above constellations of beer cans and glass, ashes. The lid of sky's diameter remains the same. In water only yards away,...

In the Magic City

...iron, like stars that draw from the dark as they spin     Maubilla and Horseshoe Bend the way Elvin works the cymbals     into distant crowds. And when it ends...

Putting up Beans

...dirt wasps. Slightly rubbery, slightly sweet enough bushel baskets to put away winter hunger for about another year. I remember the first time I canned in the barns, tobacco barn...

Aftermath

...outside. I saw her in it. She reminded me of me— with her hair black and long as mine had been— as she moved in and then away from the...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

...and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen since he was...

Brown, Common Meter, 511t

1)  I love to steal a while away From ev'ry cumb'ring care, And spend the hours of setting day, In humble, grateful, pray'r. 2)  I love in solitude to shed...

Sweep

...way things work down here, while I wait and the rain plinks on the rims of overturned tires, he and my father trade the names of the dead: Bill Farrell...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook. Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, then only way to...