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February 23, 2016 Poetry

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Vincent Scarpa

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To love is to understand
the tsunami--

that it's just a thing the sea does
when it's been too long

missing the land.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent Scarpa is an MFA canidate in fiction at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. His stories and essays have appeared in journals including Electric Literature, StoryQuarterly, Indiana Review, Brevity, and The Baltimore Review. He is the Managing Editor of The Austin Review and tweets at @vincentscarpa.

 

 

image: Aaron Burch


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