Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note: From the volcanic mountains of Albay, the Philippines, where the earth remembers itself through ash, river, ruins, roads, and green meadows, these poems by Roseville N. Nidea rise with a pulse that is both intimate and elemental. They speak from a landscape where memory is not fixed in the past but breathes in the living present, held in the curve of a shoreline, the quiet, ashen horizon created by Mt. Mayon, the hush before the rain, and the way names are spoken in endearment. Writing from the heart, the poet listens closely to her environment as a living archive, allowing wind, the sky, earth, and the sea to enter the poems’ realms not as backdrop but as co-authors. Each line is shaped by attentiveness to what has been lost, what endures, and what must be named carefully so it can remain in thought and memory. (2026). Simbolismo: Signs, Identities, Meanings, 2(Special Issue). https://simbolismo.org/index.php/ssim/article/view/75