Another, theme in this poem is the role of storytelling especially with the ways oral traditions are written down. Ayah, does not tell this story directly instead it is composed of her memories this provides an internal dialogue, which functions as the story. It weaves the good memories of the past with the painful memories of the present through associating the memories with common themes threaded through them. This allows the poem to not be limited by the events being told in chronological order. Instead the oral traditions of Ayah’s past have influenced the way it is written down. At the end of the poem, she sees her husband Chato, lying down in the snow dying. Ayah sings a lullaby that her grandmother passed down to her. This represents
