Ostinato Destino -

First, a fragile melody in C minor: searching, climbing toward E♭, then falling back. Hope, then its echo. The ostinato swallows each note whole and regurgitates the same four-note pattern.

Fine. Ostinato destino is not tragedy. Tragedy implies surprise, a fall from grace. This is something older: a tread wheel, a pulse, a return. It is the knowledge, at age twelve, that your life will rhyme with your parents' lives. It is the phone that rings with the same bad news every third Tuesday. It is the note you keep writing because you cannot write the other note. ostinato destino

A long silence. Two empty beats.

The destino does not end. But neither does the ostinato's strange, stubborn beauty. First, a fragile melody in C minor: searching,