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

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...

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,...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...afraid to land case he might get landed on Sadie is so big to me she’s the midnight blue of sky just swings and swings with fear of God human...

Sweep

...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...twelve dull movements of a slow dance. Something moves the ants for a while. Something moves you on. The sky is terribly the same, full of small engines, birdsong, momentary...

Letter: Blues

...And Washington, and you, Love — states away. The clouds are flat. The sky is going grey. I'm fiddling with the juice jug, honey pot, White chrysanthemums that I just...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...homes where Mother's Day dinners cooled while the locals watched the smoke agitate the north Alabama sky, and Janey Miller, the twelve year old with a well bucket and a...