For string quartet. Written for JACK.

Inspired by Robert Duncan's poem, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," which envisions a an ever-opening field, both real and imaginary, where memory, language, and nature are continuously folded over.

The piece begins with a stable pitch "opening" into upper partials, then rupturing, finding solid ground, and ascending as a heterophonic canon. As the melody climbs, the just-intonation pitch field is altered by a sequence of changing fundamentals.