A Woman of Thirty

Within this unconventional collection, a brief morality play opens the experience, staging a strange negotiation over an elderly woman's final moments. The scene shifts quickly from grim debate among a doctor, deacon, and landlady to a surprisingly tender intrusion of a new lady who claims the empty room as her own. This juxtaposition sets a tone of dark humor and quiet reverence that reverberates through the rest of the work.

The following sections unfold as a sequence of love poems, travel sketches, and vivid observations that wander from Sri Lankan song verses to imagined Japanese vases. Each piece explores desire, loss, and the ordinary miracles of daily life, often through surprising metaphors and fragmentary dialogue. Listeners will find a mosaic of voices that invites contemplation of identity, aging, and the small miracles that sustain us.