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

Elegy for the Native Guards

...their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves intone. Only the fort remains, near...

Failed Memory Exercise

...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

Tarsus, Alabama It takes a while to find the place where I can hold the photograph and the mountain will finish itself, and a while until I'll let it drop...

Anniversary

...to fill what's missing. So, Floyd Mann, you came to quell, though warned away, alone against the mob, and solitary still at the bedsides of the beaten, weeping over their...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...family vacations included mandatory excursions to museums, libraries, and historical sites. To ensure that my little brother and I "enjoyed" cultural experiences of all stripes, we toured the Smithsonian in...

Good-Bye to All That?

...mirage in our political downward spiral. I've often felt depressed, most recently after the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2010 elections. My usual response to disappointment has been to feverishly read...