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When I Think of Home
I-Home
Text by Carolyn Wille-Rivera, edited and dramatized by Marcos de Jesús Wille

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I can’t sleep.
I’m sitting at a desk,
Staring at a computer in San Juan, Porto Rico.
-I mean-
Puerto Rico

It’s cool (by Puerto Rican standards) outside,
But hot, hot, HOT inside.
Coquís, tiny tree frogs forming a chorus after rain.
It’s lovely and I know I’ll miss it if I ever leave.
But it’s not home.

I am not home

Puerto Rico has natural beauty and nice people,
But, tonight I’m homesick.
I’m remembering my country years,
Growing up on a small dairy farm in Mequon Wisconsin.

I liked roaming the fields,
Making up stories
About little people
Living in forests of alfafa.

I liked bringing the cows to the barn for their mid-day drink of water,
And observing their “pecking order”,
As the more docile cows waited their turn for water.

After supper, I looked forward to taking my dog, Prince, along
To round up the cows.
(My father never believed me,
But Princie did accomplish this feat,
One time!)

I also enjoyed standing at the gate, calling,
“Come, bass”.
Some of them came, sometimes.
Mostly, not.

My heart swelled as I contemplated the sun setting
Over the area of the parcel that we called “Cuba”.
(All we knew was that a man had lived there
And had put up a sign over his door that said: “Cuba”)


I remember the summer that I tamed wild tigers,
Born high in the Haymow.
All tigers became loveable and docile kittens,
And eventually vicious mousers.

I may be-I am- far from Wisconsin, but my heart is still in Wisconsin.
It’s my Wisconsin and I’m home…
And I’m home…

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from When I Think of Home, released June 1, 2023
Leanna Hieber, soprano and the Orfeo Duo: Vita Wallace, violin. Ismael Wallace, piano.

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De la Guagua = of the bus, of us. Insight-driven roots-radical rapper, music/dance-maker, Afri-Boricua folklorista, Christian. I work on wholeness in a world that divides and conquers because we are emotion and intellect. We all need a Bible, a hymnal & a drum to know where we're going and where we come from, a person becomes a person among people, and a nation needs freedom, land & dance-halls. ... more

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