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

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

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...

Stones and Shadows

...and impossible, words as grand as shadows cast by stones. He stabs at a steak with his fork and says, "This one is your mother's — she doesn't want any...

Brass Knuckles

Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...

The Dirt Eaters

...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...