Underneath My Tongue I Cultivate Moray Eels is a writing piece presented as a reading performance, accompanied by a counter-gestural intervention: a lullaby meant to be sung. The work reflects on the spaces between the hapticalities of the body, the semantics engraved in language systems and the extra-linguistic dynamics of the voice. The text focuses on the enactment of the politics of grief while tracing broken temporalities, fragmented narratives and auto-ethnographic practices.