Voicing: SA and piano
Duration: 3' 30"
Written in: 2024
 
A setting for upper voices of an unsettling poem by Christina Rossetti. The poem, which takes the form of a series of questions and answers, is deliberately ambiguous, but deals, with the lightest of touches, on the nature of death and the afterlife.
 
"Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end...."