A collection of poetry by Mayan poet Humberto Ak'abal about the vanished world of his childhood. The poems evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place. Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers, and mothers, and animals, and ghosts, and thwarted love, and fields, and rains, and poverty, and death. Text in both Spanish and English.