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

Scarecrow

...sing. I'm not dumb, but I wish I were. A fool bothers the Father about a brain. Hear us, Lord. There is too much to pray. I am a mouthless...

Atchison newspaper

...will be referred to as barbarous savages, and that will be all. We will show our bristles. 'We will keep ourselves right with the record,' as the politicians say, and...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

  Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...stand where the newsmen stood, over that place where the Riders waited in a circle of grace and disbelief, fragile as the surface of a ladle that hears each word....

Prayer of the Backhanded

Not the palm, not the pear tree Switch, not the broomstick, Nor the closest extension Cord, not his braided belt, but God, Bless the back of my daddy's hand Which,...

Zircon

Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...