Make It From a Catsup Bottle, a Flashlight Coil, a Penny, the Cat's Bell

A friend tweeted out news I missed from this past August re: previously unreleased Coil now available:

So, after a criminally long time, we have “Backwards”, described as the missing link between 1990’s “Love’s Secret Domain” and the “Musick to Play in the Dark”-series. Among the tracks which are to be released on CD and Vinyl on october 9th via Cold Spring Records are the original versions of “A Cold Cell” and “Fire of the Mind”. The span of relative inactivity, studio album wise, and soundtrack experimentation between 1990 and 1998 (a silence gloriously interrupted by ELpH and Black Light District releases) wasn’t empty – but the result of that time’s studio work didn’t see the light of this sorry little planet until now when Cold Spring Records dropped three excerpts off the upcoming release, coming in CD and double vinyl format, scheduled for 9th october, which can be heard on the label’s soundcloud page.

So, as promised last night on twuuter, a cascade, six in orange.

• Growing stupid together.
• The mothership and the fatherland.
• Trump: giving the people what they want.
• Who'll fall.
• The minute Trump apologizes for anything his candidacy is over.
• Batwings.
• The shadows in the cave.
• Fire of the green shadow.
• There must be something.
• Homage to sewage.
• Weird instincts.
• Paranoid inlay.
• On Anthony Hecht's Green: An Epistle. First, I'm not sure why there is recent burst of Hecht sightings in Lit Blegsylvania, but yay! and second, Green is the poem I always post for Hecht's birthday.

VENUS

D Nurkse

Death is coming

and you must build a starship

to take you to Venus.

Make it from a catsup bottle,

a flashlight coil,

a penny, the cat’s bell,

Mom’s charm bracelet.

They say that planet is torment,

whipped by circular wind,

choked in vitriol clouds.

But no. When you get there

it is a light in the sky

and I am with you.

If you find nothing else,

borrow the pleated wing

of a winter moth,

lighter than dust.