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

Nigger Street 1937

...late-staying patrons     early in country churches on Sunday mornings     and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together    ...

At Cornwall Furnace

...the size of a liver. It's why Noble's men built it. Probably a product of the last blast. Too late. We can imagine the boys who mined and cut the...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...never wrote coiled in field reports and requisitions, and three days later a church-bomb in Birmingham blew the stained-glass face of Christ like a dandelion head in the roadside weeds....

The Change

...earth when quenched with rains called forth by our song and drumming. Leaves, which weeks later,   would be taken down and the strings pulled like string on top of...

Rent

...will, with enough time, consume it— before going on to another survival.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009...

Aftermath

...sentence spoken the second time—truer, perhaps, with the blunt edge of a practiced tongue.   Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009...