Duration: ca. 8’

Program Note: “the leaves scatter like foam” was a phrase I ran across somewhere in an anthology of modern poetry. I regret not having the foresight in that moment to catalogue the page and author which generously provided this beautiful string of words, but it is a phrase that brought meaning to a piece that I was struggling to pin down with words. To me, it evokes a collection of ideas which I have come to associate with this music:

Delicate, aimless flitting; butterfly-like

Gleams of brilliance, some bashful, others pronounced

Profound beauty packaged in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment

Contending with impermanence