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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.
Era ô caer d’a tarde,
Encomenzaba o cántico d’os grilos,
Xorda a presa ruxia,
Brilaban lonxe os lumes fuxitivos.
Ô pe d’o monte, maxestuoso erguíase
N’aldea escura o caseron querido,
C’a oliva centenaria
De cortinax ô ventanil servindo.
Deserta a escalinata,
Soyo o paterno niño,
E enriba d’el caendo misteriosas
C’o as sombras d’o crepúsculo, as d’o olvido.
¿Quen ô pasado volve
Os ollos compasivos?
¿Quen se lembra d’os mortos,
S’inda non poden recordarse os vivos?