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Sarah Arvio

Young Writers

Winter 2006

Park of the Doria Pamphilj

By Sarah Arvio

I know I was startled to feel like this,staring straight into the eye of the storm,the stone pines turning toward me and away— stands of them standing, and then bending […]

Young Writers

Winter 2006

Starlings

By Sarah Arvio

All winter I watched the swarms of starlingsswooping in the northern sky like cast netsor some foreign alphabets flying loose and returning and rushing out again.I wanted to live the […]