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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 ...

I Left My Coat in a Tree

I left my coat

Hanging on a tree.

A few days later

What do I see?


A small bird nest

In my small coat hood.

In that nest were eggs,

And I thought that was good.


A few days later

What do I see?

Three or four hatchlings

In my coat in the tree.


A couple of days later

A storm came along.

I found my coat on the ground

And the hatchlings were gone.


I left my coat

Hanging on a tree.

I hope the chicks flew away

And are happy and free.

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