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Madeline Jones

from Thirty Little Turns by Tempest

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Some fond memories of Patricia’s childhood visits with family in the faraway and fabled land of Mississippi. Dedicated to Granny Gert and dear Maddy, who told us stories and put vanilla behind her ears.

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The clean, dark hope of cotton left drying in the wind
Love of a big-heart woman that dying doesn’t end
The voices raise up in the air beyond the Hopewell grove
The shady woods, I’m with you where you drove

Girl in a stone cold basement shining in the light
Stories through the iron steam the cotton smooth and white
You planted in those seed trees to cheer a somber child
For all I know they grow there still and wild

Now from a weary distance I see you in my dreams
The sound of a train so lonesome another life it seems
Now Mr. Ott is selling cans around the bend from God
I lose my place and you just think I'm odd

Drove out by the river where the homestead used to be
All the roads were named for them the seven kids and me
Shadow in the shotgun house is always cool and dark
In the window song of meadowlark

I saw him decades later when they laid her down to rest
Dark eyes turned to opal and looking to the west
Purple martins lace the sky above the Williamson place
Generations since they saw your face

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from Thirty Little Turns, released February 23, 2018
(Sorbye/Reynolds)

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