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The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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New York City
New York
Sound
Shoulders
Flickers
Water
Flesh
Supple
Born
Heavy
Flicker
Form
Rocks
Thighs
Earth
Arms
Sensuality
Color
Crystals
Love
Blood
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Life
Fire
Turning
Uncounted
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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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