And it rains here / Everyday since I came, / and the linen covers rocks / And the green finds everything / Chimacum rain... // In the soar of leaves / And needle tufts and form, / in the grasses and the reeds, / and the spilling over stones / Chimacum rain... // I'm spacing out, I'm seeing silence between leaves, / I'm seeing down, I'm seeing silence that are his / He belongs here, can't have him / He belongs here, can't know him / He belongs here // It kinda gets inside you, / the silences I mean / They kinda wrap around you, / and loosen everything / Chimacum rain...

linda perhacs


Chemakum (English pronunciation: [ˈʧɛməkəm]) (also written as Chimakum or Chimacum) were a Native American group that once lived on western Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. The Chemakum spoke a language very similar to the Quileute language, which is now effectively a language isolate. This is because the Chemakum were wiped out by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people in warfare during the 1860s.