Two of her Thetford poems:

 

Fear 

 

I am afraid of nature

because of nature   I am mortal

 

My children and my grandchildren

are also mortal

 

I lived in the city for forty years

in this way I escaped fear

 

 

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False strawberry is

an authentic five-

petaled flower stand-

 

ing in a whirl of

three strawberry leaves

waiting in disturbed

 

fields for an accu-

mulation of the

healthy soil that kills