Mamma Etna Cries in January: A Poem — Libertroph Magazine

MAMMA ETNA CRIES IN JANUARY

Alyssa Smaldino (she/they)

Illustration of Mount Etna crying tears into the ocean. The tears join a water cycle and runoff into the ocean, rise into the clouds, and fall again on Etna

Listen to the Poem:

Just steps from Porto dell’Etna, the man at the market proclaims with a heavy heart:

“I’ve just returned from Etna. The snow is already melting! In January!”

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