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Amalia Sabatini
New Jersey
Amalia lives in the watershed of the Raritan River in west central New Jersey. She is a long time bioregionalist and animist who ran All Species Day celebrations and solstice ceremonies in eastern North Carolina for many years. She now teaches philosophy at CUNY, crochets lace, and catches poems when she's lucky.
Vernal Equinox 2018
and still it turns.... Galileo Galilei
"How many of you
can dance on the head of a pin?"
I ask an angel.
A dandelion laughs and blows
a thousand seeds into the air.
"Something like that," the angel answers.
"Come with me and see."
A purple crocus pushes up through snow,
a flock of robins appears,
red wings call at dawn,
light at eve.
Oh tell me that your cells aren't singing
as sap rises in the trees
and buds swell,
that you at any age aren't ready
to be born.
Yes, the Arctic is melting,
and species disappear,
Earth is getting warmer,
forests burn.
Yes, storms are getting wilder
...andstill it turns.