For mezzo-soprano & piano. Six songs: Come Close (Mimi Khalviti, Iran); The Boy (Nathalie Handal, Palestine); Sun and Moon (Venus Khoury-Ghata, Lebanon); it is my soul it is (Karen Alkalay-Gut, Israel); The Hanging Hours (Nathalie Handal); On the Shortest Day of the Year (Chana Bloch, Israel/America). Premiered in New York, April 2005. Duration: ca. 19'. Spiral bound score, 51 p.