“Swan Song” is inspired by a poem of the same title by the Persian poet Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (1914-1986). It presents a haunting meditation on love, mortality, and the enduring myths surrounding the swan’s final song.

They say when the time comes for a swan to die,
it goes where other swans have gone to die.
They say as the last night begins to fall,
it trails behind the setting sun to die.
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(Translation by Armen Davoudian)