Me and Lady Harbor let the tide slip away
Revealing her hands entwined in my hands – intertwined in her
Safe and sound and sweet and soft beneath the whip of my flags three
Hello Carolopolis, Carolina, My Country 'Tis of Thee
Quiet under cover of yet another deep blue night
Threads of silk in a sateen sky dimming the gibbous light
Five tap-dancing fingers piano your prickly spine
Up and down and down and up again, a silly rhythm in our mind
Your baby's breath breeze billows a sojourner's breast
baby's breath breathing good tidings who beckon me home-sweet-home
baby's breath healing my sin-sick soul
at last, at once, for all
You are a palmetto, i catch you pom-pomming my sky
Tippy-toes hardly anchored in the wharf, muddy wharf
Nestled somewhere halfway up a South Atlantic Coast
Brackish muddy water never felt so warm
These toes of mine so tickled by the prickles of the fingers
Of a tidepool who decided to stick around a while and play
stick around after the sheets o'er me and my beloved Lady Harbor
Up, done slipped and slid away
The tidepool ripples in our too-tiny bed
The surface sparkles ever-silver
And I shall sing now to to thee
My beloved Lady Harbor intertwined in me