For solo marimba. Four movements: I - [Death is a dialogue between] The spirit and the dust (Emily Dickinson); II - Under this vast universe pain's mill-wheel rotates (Rabindranath Tagore); III - For in that sleep of death what dreams may come (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1); IV - But this chain, though made of a breath, is hard to break (Kahlil Gibran).