Kore offered me the opportunity of writing a new piece for voice, featuring Michiel Schrey. I was reading Poe’s work The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and was struck by its continual sense of a descent into an ever more mysterious place. (What an incredibly strange story it is.) For this composition, I extracted excerpts from a few pages near the story’s end. This piece is not a retelling of the story so much as it is a rumination on the sense of the narrative (and narrator) being adrift in unknown waters. The piece is dedicated to Cynthia Beer, brilliant teacher, dear friend.