Come away to Carcass Island
In the sundering, Southern Seas
Where black night heron shadows roost
In scorched wood cypress trees
Come away to Carcass Island
Where the tussock grasses die
Among the dog roses and fuchsias
Under high cerulean skies
Come away to Carcass Island
Where the ghosts hum funeral hymns
And the sailors sway like rag dolls
In the noose knots hung from limbs
Come away to Carcass Island
Where the cabbage palms once grew
For I’ve never known an Anyone
More dearly dead than you.
