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Purbeck Marble Remembers
Helen Na rass

we woke up without shells

the whole swarm of us
strangely libera ng a er life in a helical house

memories of sudden turbidity
our lives choked out

we see our bodies our buried dwellings

some mes we visit our shells

now filled up and curiously hardened
since our early excursions to the ocean floor

we now wend to Canterbury
and find our old homes in pillars
near Thomas

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