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Blue

from Caterwaul by Ilia Nicoll

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She’s blue
It’s on her fingers too
She brushes sleeves away
To knead the brainy clay
Soft glue
Down to a single hue
She will play

This is new
Hard times have hit her too
But not today
What she creates will stay
Down through
The gloom a forest grew
Left her lying where the
Shadows moved away

She wears a faded cotton smock
Her father went to work in
And from her stem and from her stalk Her honey grows a grin

Dreams from the avenue
Come rolling in the night into the room
Dawn grey and blixen shout
An envelope of sleep buoys the air
She won’t remember she was there

Wakes deep
A simple coffee steep
Salutes the morn
Where the stars were shorn
She’s blue
It’s on her fingers too
And there’s a canvas in the corner
With a quart of something
Green

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from Caterwaul, released August 12, 2014
Vocals: Ilia Nicoll
Piano, drums: Jake Nicoll
Cello: Billy Nicoll
Saw: Noah Bender

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Ilia Nicoll Stratford, Ontario

Ilia has been a longstanding fixture of the East Coast Canadian music scene. Her songwriting is lyrically astute, melodically adventurous and cinematic. In her classic vocal stylings you can find evidence of her childhood obsession with 60s American/British folk and Judy Garland. Since her last European tour just prior to the pandemic, she’s been mothering a child and a collection of new songs. ... more

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