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Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Ashes
Opening
Keeps
Heaps
Blue
Shutting
Fans
Adjusting
Like
Crow
Injured
Shells

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