One place understood helps us understand all places better.

Eudora Welty

Southern Smile

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Here will be found most poems that have their genesis in my southern upbringing. I have no experience with other regions of the United States, but it is my impression that the southern culture is as peculiar, or more so, than any other region. Or I should say, it was, because that peculiarity has almost been homogenized away.

Never, not at home


There was a place,
now in the past,
where I was never,
not at home.