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

Aftermath

...your breath it rose from your mouth to disappear in the air above you. You see, aftermath is easier, opening again the wound along its numb scar; it is the...

#209, Long Meter

...active here.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010 © 2010 Laurie Kay Sommers and Southern Spaces...

#598, Common Meter

...absent from the flesh,    And present Lord, with thee.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...

Brown, Common Meter, 511t

1)  I love to steal a while away From ev'ry cumb'ring care, And spend the hours of setting day, In humble, grateful, pray'r. 2)  I love in solitude to shed...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...field is quilted in a diagonal crosshatch, and the crossing lines carefully intersect in small printed turtle-shaped motifs distributed across the field. The orange strips surrounding the bandannas were quilted...

Jackson, Mississippi images

Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...

Memphis, Tennessee images

...of Memphis basketball teams. Baseball Figures, Autozone Park Completed in 2000, Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals....

Elegy for the Native Guards

...here, at the fort's entrance— each Confederate soldier's name raised hard in bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards— 2nd regiment, Union men, black phalanx. What is monument to...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...cover thee? — Job 38: 33-34 1 Like a spirit moving through the flower of moonlight hanging in the water, through the depth that never warms where carp and catfish...