Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Our daughter is one and a half
You have been dead eleven days
I got on the boat and came to the place where the three of us were going to build our house
If you had lived
You died though
So I came here alone
With our baby and the dust of your bones
I can't remember
Were you into Canada geese?
Is it significant
These hundreds on the beach?
Or were they just hungry for mid-migration seaweed?
What about foxgloves?
Is that a flower you liked?
I can't remember
You did most of my remembering for me
And now I stand untethered in a field full of wild foxgloves
Wondering if you're there
Or if a flower means anything
And what could anything mean in this crushing absurdity?
I brought a chair from home
I'm leaving it on the hill
Facing west and north
And I poured out your ashes on it
I guess so you can watch the sunset
But the truth is I don't think of that dust as you
You are the sunset
Seaweed (live) was written by Phil Elverum.
Seaweed (live) was produced by Phil Elverum.
Mount Eerie released Seaweed (live) on Fri Sep 21 2018.