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A sequence of lyric poems in Galician that blend evocative depictions of misty coastal and rural landscapes with intimate meditations on grief, longing, and domestic life. The voice alternates tender, maternal and elegiac tones with sharper social awareness, addressing scarcity, departure, and cultural memory. Varied forms—short songs, narrative fragments, and longer reflective pieces—use folk rhythms and vivid natural imagery to explore language, belonging, and the persistence of feeling across absence and change.

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¡SILENCIO!

A man nerviosa e palpitante o seo,

As niebras n’os meus ollos condensadas,

Con un mundo de dudas n’os sentidos

Y-un mundo de tormentos n’as entrañas;

Sentindo como loitan,

En sin igual batalla,

Inmortales deseios que atormentan,

E rencores que matan.

Mollo n’a propia sangre a dura pruma

Rompendo a vena inchada,

Y escribo... escribo ¿para qué? ¡Volvede

Ô mais fondo da yalma

Tempestosas imaxes!

Ide á morar c’as mortas relembranzas;

Qu’ a man tembrosa n’o papel sô escriba

¡Palabras, e palabras, e palabras!

¿Da idea a forma inmaculada e pura

Donde quedou velada?