The first of the book's three sections has poems related to the author's experiences as a performer and teacher of keyboard music, and as a listener to music. The second section has poems set in Paris in both contemporary and historical times, which reflect on the city's art and architecture, along with individual artists and colourful personages who lived there. The third section traces the intimate flow of perceptions and states of conscious associated with the poet's house and yard in her home city of Toronto, and also in Minnesota, where she grew up. In each section there are poems presenting affectionate portraits and reminiscences of the poet's mother, musical mentors, and three uncles.

Sue Chenette is the author of Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions, 2009), The Bones of His Being (Guernica Editions, 2012), and the documentary poem What We Said (Motes Books, 2019), based on her time as a social worker in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Her chapbooks include Solitude in Cloud and Sun, A Transport of Grief, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry Association's Shaunt Basmajian Award in 2001. A classical pianist, poet, and editor, she grew up in northern Wisconsin and has made her home in Toronto since 1972.

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