Avey recounts an experience going out “seal eyeing” – or rather, seal viewing, an outdoors activity in which one goes to a shore to observe seals in their natural habitat – wherein he is struck both by the pleasant warmth of being out in nature and the ephemerality of the experience and of our own l...
Me, slowly walking going to see the seal
Swimming in the lake of melted ice
The minnows they are catching, must be good
They stay so long, entreat us to write
Of getting close to nature, people know
It's a good time for a photo, can't let go
But the ice should not be melting everywhere
Soon we'll all be melting on the shore
Our shoes will all be dripping rubber swirls
Now there's no time for a photo but
How good to swim in sunshine
How good to swim in sunshine
How good to swim in sunshine
How good to swim in sunshine
Seal Eyeing was written by Animal Collective.
Animal Collective released Seal Eyeing on Mon May 05 2008.