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Just As I Am

Who a person is and who their family thinks they should be are two different things.

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When we were kids, understanding the afterlife was confusing and frightening. A Southern writer gets inside the head of a boy who’s scared plumb to death.

A Tennessee poet brings us five works. All of them speak to small matters that every Southerner holds dear.

I write one, Rob writes one, and we welcome a new poet into the Salvation South fold.

A poem about friendship and secrets in a country club locker room.

Sometimes, we need a talisman to remind us of the difference between who we used to be and who we are now. In Rachel Martin’s house, it’s a log. A very particular log.

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We were taught the South’s greatest music sprung up in specific places, like the Mississippi Delta or New Orleans or Appalachia. Our teachers didn’t dig deep enough.

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Just As I Am

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