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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.
—Teño tres pitas brancas
E un galo negro,
Que han de poñer bós ovos,
Andand’o tempo.
Y hei de vende-los caros
Po-lo Xaneiro.
Y hei de xuntá-los cartos
Para un mantelo,
Y heino de levar posto
No casamento,
Y hei...
—Pois mira, Marica,
Vay por un neto
Qu’antramentas non quitas
Eses cerellos,
Y as pitas van medrando
C’o galo negro,
Para poñé-los ovos,
E todo aquelo
Do xaneiro, d’os cartos,
Y o casamento,
Miña prenda da yalma
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