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

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I remember my father, Edgar Wille, Edgar Wille.

Who, despite an eigth-grade education,
Was not only literate
But who knew when to plant and harvest crops
At just the right times.
Edgar Wille, Edgar Wille

And who, though not an agronomist,
Understood the benefits of crop rotation
And the appropriate use of manure.
Edgar Wille, Edgar Wille

And who, though not meteorologist,
Knew each cloud,
And what it could, and could not do.
He knew tomorrow’s weather
Better than the men on TV.
Edgar Wille, Edgar Wille.

He was, in his own way, a naturalist
Who would pause from his work
To observe the migration of geese.

He also would report
On the sighting of a fox,
Deer (not so common then),
Or a garter snake, sunning itself on a rock.

Edgar Wille…My Edgar Wille…Our Edgar Wille…Oh Edgar Wille!
My Pa.

He was not an agronomist,
He was not a meteorologist.
He was a naturalist.
Quite literate
In the reading of Word,
Crop,
Soil,
And cloud.

He read earth…and clouds.

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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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