By Kamala Sankaram (b. 1978)
Kivalina is a small Inuit village of only 1.9 square miles, located on a barrier island in Alaska. The rising sea level threatens to submerge the village, its people, and their culture.
This work was written for Duo Cortona and premiered in 2014.

Lyrics
This.
This is my home.
This is my home: this ribbon of ice and snow, this glimmer in the endless blue.
Cold and caribou drum.
Singing songs of Sedna.
This.
This is my home.
This is my home.
This is my father’s house.
These steps that led to the sea now disappear.
Now disappear into the sea.
Disappear into the sea.
Disappear.
Disappear.
Disappear.

Credits
from Sea Tangle: Songs from the North, released December 21, 2016
Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Harris, violin