This work grows out of a series of repeated chords, with different notes of the chords brought out to create melodies; the emphasized notes are noted by red colored notes in the score -- a solution to the notational problem and also a reference to the Robert Hass poem the title of the work refers to, "Meditation at Lagunitas":

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...There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,

saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.