The title of this piece for two guitars is a line from the poem ‘The Forrester’s Stratagem’ by the poet Neile Graham. The individual sections are titled from various words/phrases used in the poem. This piece, relatively tonal in a contemporary way, has some technical challenges for the players rhythmically.

There are 7 sections, each named with excerpts from the poem:
1. ‘Ghost, Generations’ 2. ‘Dance of Rain’ 3. ‘Invisible Branches’ 4. ‘On the Cedars’ 5. ‘Pass then pass, touch’ 6. ‘It’s that sky’ 7. ‘Stone, Rain, Wood-Secret Formulae