Epistle is a work for SATB choir, soprano, violin, and piano and is a letter to the creator of all things acknowledging the frailty of our bodies and minds. Here the poet, Theresa Shapiro, opens herself completely to the fate that awaits us all. In doing so she revels in the notion of becoming one with the other elements of nature and the universe and that, at some point all will become one with their creator. Then, indeed, there might be peace