Grace Paley Died Yesterday in Thetford Hill, Vermont
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