Joanna

from Greenway Park by D.M. Franklin Kane

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Is this oddity sure proof of Heaven's Hand?
This patch of sunlight where Joanna used to stand
That never loses its luminance
Despite night or cumulus conditions

Now and then she would stop off at this spot
I never knew if she intended to or not
All that I saw was a silhouette bounded by gold
Whose source was not quite sunken yet

As the murmur of the runoff water flowed
She whispered words to me my ears could not decode
I didn't press or investigate
Why resolve when to guess and never know's so great?

And if time were a kinder breed of beast
We'd still be ten with the year endlessly leased
No want or need to go anywhere
Seated here with Joanna standing there

I'll never need another reason to believe
God-given gifts outnumber stripes upon my sleeve
Funny how turmoil turns to song within
My calm thoughts of here and her and them and then

Fresh out of Fragola in a post-traumatic state
All my precious flashbacks gets here weak and way too late
There goes old General Yesterday
He won't die
He just slowly fades away

I stand and start to leave what's left of Greenway Park
All my precious flashbacks just ran past me in the dark
Our of my reach at electric speed
Do they touch-
Will they lead me to-
To that place
To that place
To that place
Where Joanna stands?

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from Greenway Park, released June 9, 1999

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D.M. Franklin Kane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Up, Alive!" is the latest collection of songs from North Carolina's D.M. Franklin Kane.

This is Kane's first full-length release since 2014's "The Hard Truth."

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