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

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Consolation

...maybe we could, a minute, rejoice that no one will ever fall from this height again, no one will tangle three months in the river and be raised up anonymous...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...sound chamber. But the tone of the strings on the other neck was yours, old sweet-playing father. In the late twenties, they cut a few minutes of you into vinyl...

Theories of Time and Space

...markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion — dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where rigging of shrimp boats are...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...the sink, waiting for the unfortunate accidents that punctuate the day and night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time.   Published in The Boatloads...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...simply for their architecture. All winter the dying have set their tables and now they are almost as black as the profound waters off Guam. A few minutes ago, when...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...mist her hair with her "Big Sexy Hair" spray, and drive us five minutes to school before heading to the office and further patients to visit and administrative duties to...