Title: There is No Word For Goodbye

Author: Mary TallMountain

Main Characters: Mary TallMountain and her sokoya

Setting: Alaska, outside nature

Genre: Poem

Point Of View: 1st person

Mood: touching, hopeful

Theme: The poet found that there was no word for goodbye when she had to leave her

sokoya.

Literary Device: Imagery, similes, metaphors

Summary: The poem is about when the poet has to leave her sokoya, she didn't know

how to say goodbye to the old woman. Yet, from her sokoya, she understood that

there was no word for goodbye because in their heart, they were never apart.