Performance Description: A collection of poetry (Edmond Jabès, Walt Whitman, Mahadeviyakka, Franz Kafka, César Vallejo, Symeon, Margaret Aho, and others) set to music with various instrumentation: Vocal, Woodwinds, Trombone, Piano/Keyboard, Acoustic Bass, Drums/Percussion. The music expresses a yearning for communion or spirituality, for an existence beyond the physical.