Carpels - Medicine Boy

Pull down your silver blinds

Try and get some sleep tonight

Dream of America and how she’s calling you

In glittered robes and your mother’s shoes

There’s hours still to come undone

To hide away from that vicious sun

Carpels concealed in a lily’s bell

A maiden’s shell

Water confined to an ancient well

An evening spell

Walk to the water’s edge

Move slow so nothing shows

Hold on to pale thoughts and pale limbs

As they drift as they sink and swim

It’s been years now you’ve quietly hummed

To still the words to that beating song

Carpels concealed in a lily’s bell

A maiden’s shell

Water confined to an ancient well

An evening spell