La Kanto de Tamar
I composed this Esperanto song for Tamar, the cyborg mermaid who met King Alfred, to echo through the corridors of her spaceship as she journeys through time and space. It tells of her past, her…
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Mermaids in Labour: Fit for Fantasy
A two-part poem inspired by my reading of Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck”.
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Still ‘Diving into the Wreck’
Once in a while, you come across a piece of writing that deeply resonates with what lives inside you, in words you did not have yet. That happened to me, on a sleepless night. I…
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Achtamar – two poems
The first track of my solo album is about the story of Achtamar, which I learned in Armenia. Using the familiar trope of of star-cross’d lovers, the story of Achtamar is about a young woman named…