Credit to Ruth White, electronic music pioneer of the 60s. Not my own, but one day, I hope, a progenitor to my own work.

Words translated from Charles Baudelaire, "Brumes et pluies" (Mists and Rains) Cover artwork by Henri Matisse.

late autumns, winters, springtimes steeped in mud,
o drowsy seasons i love and i praise you
for enfolding my heart and my brain
in a misty shroud, a cloudy tomb.

in this great plain, where the cold south wind plays,
where through the long night the weather-cock shrieks himself hoarse, 
my soul, far better than in the days of warm renewal,
will spread wide its raven's wings.

nothing is more dear to my chilled and gloomy heart,
o dismal seasons, queens of our sad climate,
than the changeless aspect of your pale shadows...

unless it be, on a moonless night, two by two,
to lay our suffering to sleep on a perilous bed.

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