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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

Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon; gulls overhead trailing the boat—streamers, noisy...

Substantiation

...shade the one eye. A cruiser eases through the streets, searchlight in doorways, the driver white, dressed like a cop but for the rope marks at his throat, the bullet...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...white kerchiefs waving back and forth made languid light. 2. Langour. I lay back in the bucket seat, for the first time let a yellow boy kiss me and kiss...

Darkly

...Kitchen's gone. I can cruise, can walk and search each pane of glass for that wave of heat, the echo that will fill the night fifty years gone when five...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Seattle, WA; Tampa, FL; West Palm Beach, FL; and Wilton Manors, FL, have issued bans. Finally, the...

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...sea bass and red snapper are costing Southeast and Gulf Coast states nearly one hundred million dollars in combined losses resulting from fewer fishing trips for those species. The past...