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

Letter: Blues

...bought. At home, there is a violet, 3-D moon And pachysandra vines for me to prune, And old men with checkered shirts, suspenders, Paper bags and Cutty bottles, menders Of...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...like shadows into the last of the soft morning sun. A man cracks his knuckles as he leaves, another checks his head to be sure of the billed cap he...

The Liminal Site

...books checked out from the Birmingham Botanical Gardens library. When I started, I had four or five general ideas, each of which stayed with me through the process, and which...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50    smellin’ like crackers and peanut...