Mi silla en El Alambique, Isla Verde (Puerto Rico)

after i come back home from going home, i get this melancholy limbo of a feeling : that i have left a home behind in search of a home that is not there and yet is familiar and welcoming and soothing and incomplete for the lost years and the lost house because i have no real place to be home but the few couches and extra beds to crash on my families places and even my mother's house is this foreign, mold controlled zone in which my lungs collapse, my heart stops with the toxic molds that makes me feel unwelcomed and pushes me into the asceptic living of hotels with their climate controlled hells drowing the sound of coquis and the rustling of platain and palm trees in the middle of the night and making my body remember how to go to sleep.

after i come back home from going home, the place i come back to is so familiar and yet so removed missing the little bit of heart and soul and pain and laughter i left back in spanish with its ay benditos and ave marias and its tu sabes and its bochincheo with arroz con gandules and alcapurrias and habichuelas and sancocho de medio día and el cafecito para empatar.

i miss puerto rico more than i have missed it in many years; yet when i go back, even though the body and soul remember, everything is different and i have grown old.

when i come back home, after going home, writing is the least in mind. it takes me a few weeks to get my bearings back and to forget, with the minutiae of life in the city, that my soul is on a 7x7 piece of sand in El Alambique.

so take this, dear reader, a warning shot ... i have to warm myself back to writing.

with that said ... how's your summer been?