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

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....

The Change

...which poured through our pores without breaking through to our need for more water   in the sun. Sun we imagined to disappear yet respected   for growing all things on...

Consolation

...the trees and lay the needle down gunning through the barricades and ROAD CLOSED signs and up the amputated ramp where the bridge should be, the bridge where you stood...

Fall Creek

...old wives' tale, water’s pulse pulsing what seed might be sown, or just her need to let go the world awhile, let the creek wash away every burden her life...

Letter: Blues

...frayed things and balding summer lawns, Watching TV baseball, shelling prawns. The women that we love! Their slit-eyed ways Of telling us to mind, po-eyed dismays. We need these folks,...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...the need for healthcare providers like my mother remains unbounded. Chronic sickness and death saturate the landscape. Home, July 2018. Collage by Eric Solomon. Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0....