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Philly Storied City, the story dispensers located around the city, includes this poem of mine. It’s fun, cool thing and I am very grateful to be included.

The poem is based on a story I read in the great Annie Dillard's book, The Writing Life. It’s a wonderful book and you should all read it. I found the story really compelling and ended up writing this poem. Here’s the story:

"One bad winter in the Artic… an Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else in their winter camp had starved. Ernest Thompson Seton tells it. The woman walked from the camp where everyone had died and found a cache at a lake. The cache contained one small fishhook. It was simple to rig a line, but she had no bait and no hope of bait. The baby cried. She took a knife and cut a strip of flesh from her own thigh.    She fished with the worm of her own flesh and caught a jackfish; she fed the child and herself.  Of course, she saved the fish gut for bait.  She lived alone at the lake, on fish, until Spring, when she walked out again and found people…”

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