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

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...the bottom bringing back bricks that have washed down to the creek. Maintaining these graves is right up his alley. No headstones here, only three rusted links hung from a...

The Change

...  a buck a pound. Leaves cured to a bright leaf, a golden yellow with the strongest aroma of tobacco barn curing and hand grown quality before the encroachment of...

Consolation

...pockets like a charm we turn as we walk home again gleaming in the delicate light of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...folkies found Avalon, drove to Mississippi, and asked at a general store, "Have you heard of a musician named John Hurt?" "Third road, turn right, house on your left, up...

Little Rock, Arkansas images

...the twenty-four-story Bank of America Building (right background).   Lunch Hour Office workers walk along Little Rock's West Markham Street.   Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and...