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Getting back to her poetry, still as beautiful

"Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes.

It's more than bones.
It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse.
It's more than the beating of the single heart.
It's praising.
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving
You have a life - just imagine that!
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe
still another."
From "To Begin With the Sweet Grass"

"Joy is not made to be a crumb"