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

#598, Common Meter

...absent from the flesh,    And present Lord, with thee.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...has happened, something final. Already the ants are at their efficient work, twisting the beetle slowly from side to side like waves rocking an empty boat. The bells keep time,...

History: The Parlor

..."including cyclopedias and books of influence," one mahogany upholstered sofa, three wooden rocking chairs, and a sewing machine. The furnishings and their placement in this house was typical for the...

Emporia newspapers

...which the officers believes [sic] was a rock. A painful gash was cut in Mrs. Lusks [sic] head as a result of the blow. She was stunned for a moment...

The Chimney

...stops at the glint from a rock, mica or quartz, and finds a coin so black and thin he can barely read the year — then, my father said, someone...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...degrees latitude; the border would then be drawn due west until it reached the Pacific Ocean. The original boundary was marked by hatchet marks on trees, strategically placed rocks, and...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...biggest owner of Warrior Met, he noted, was BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. "Workers know they're getting kicked," Dixon said, "but they don't always know whose foot is in...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...Lounge, "Poor Monkey's Social Club." Video Poor Monkey's, Fall 2005. This short clip offers a glimpse inside the space as blues musician Big George Brock performs. Poor Monkey Suli Yi,...