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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

Dragonflies Are Pixies

The dragonflies I see fly around

In a small green field where dandelions abound.

Circling and diving in cool morning air

Dancing on and on without a care.


They could be after prey

Like the gnats that fly in the day

But I have some theories

One being that the dragonflies are really pixies


The pixies wear a magic disguise

As unassuming dragonflies

So that they can dance in plain sight

Of the dangerous humans without fright.


Pixies love to explore and dance

To flutter about and prance.

But they cannot do that in pixie form

Like in their world where it’s the norm.


If they didn’t wear disguises, 

They’d be captured in human vices

And be pinned in display cases

Like butterflies hung in people's living spaces.


So they hide in plain sight

And flutter about day and night.

Knowing most humans will leave them in peace

Most of their unease can cease.


So whenever I see a dragonfly

In groups or alone on the fly

I think, The pixies have come again today,

And happily go my way.

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