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

Single Centers of Creation?

...this biogeographical idea; perhaps it is not as simple and straightforward as we thought. Species originate from one place, they disperse, migrate, branch into new species, some die off ....

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50    smellin’ like crackers and peanut...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...And I wouldn't have no better pastimes than to be with my sweet. Well I wish I was a turtle dove, had wings and could fly Just now to my...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off."   "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

...not safe. So we're the first to agree that it needed to be built. Generally speaking, I think, it will be better as far as commuting for traffic, but the...

Just as Sure

...Covered farms, drowned a tree or two. They bought all the land on that new shore. And you know, things gon keep changing as sure as fools make decisions with...

Off-Season

FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...she thinks I wouldn’t know. Published in Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems (Mercer, GA: Mercer University Press, 2011). Published: 31 October 2011 © 2011 John Lane and Southern Spaces...