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

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...in those years before the world became real and history stilled, before the dams stalled the yearly flood that washed the roots and made new fields from catfish and shit...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...that summer is on us early. But this one merely stands, its wing in a ray, feathers a concrete mottle of grain and pebble like a roadside table turned into...

The Change

...popped the surface on the pond, early on, next to the fields, before that time when it was unfashionable to transplant each individual baby plant, the infant tobacco we nurtured,...

Sweep

...in his mouth, are cut down, and I'm shifting on the balls of my feet, bobbing and saving one nearly hopeless feint, one last plunge for the blockers and the...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...and sent you back to pick and sing for nearly forty years in church and at parties and to get by as a hired hand, practicing fatherhood. Greatest of the...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...My tongue is strong and hides me. I cannot die. They do not see me walking on my river, my teeth biting at early chains. They only know they choke...

Substantiation

...Till watches, enwreathes their broods. Milam wakes up early each morning when the riot in the pear trees begins, starlings wolf-whistling for food, or just repeating what they've heard. One...

Anniversary

Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...