Composer Jennifer Lucy Cook, winner of the North Dakota State University Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition for 2022, demonstrates an uncanny ability to seamlessly blend words into music. The text is by Emily Dickinson, a poet whose profound and independent thinking has been capturing hearts for well over a century. Cook effortlessly maintains a hymn-like style infused with fluidity, freedom, just the right touch of dissonance, and a final cadence that brings a smile to the soul.