See Me from Dawn by Mount Eerie

See Me

I was a log in the waves
last time you saw me.
End over end I was thrown.
I endlessly groaned “Hold my hand.
Won’t someone come surf me?”
And of course no one came.
You stood and watched the wash of water wedge me
hopelessly into the sea wall
and there I stayed
and quickly decayed

then we all swapped molecules

Now with a wave of my hand
I command you to see me.
I’m more like a mountain this time,
unmoving, alpine,
decked in fog, I’m concealed in snow clouds.
You’re the farmer below.
If you’ve seen my face once
then through twelve cloudy months
you will know that I’m there behind curtains.
You’ll know mountain light
through thickness of night.
See me.

• Experimental
• Anacortes