The following is a list of possible illnesses one may face during an expedition and the essential tools to survive.
LOST-FOG
Fire-mirrors,
blanket shelter,
stone saw,
opticompass, a pocket
of seeds.Â
GROUNDTHIRST
Hybranch,
hollowed-out
drying cards,
heavy matchsticks,
collapsible alarms,
doorbags.Â
BONEHUNGER
Flingknives, necknives, rubbleknives.
BURIED-THROAT DISEASE
Furrowed tentscreen, a
fallowed nest.
lightstrip filters,
radiocans.
WOLF-ENVY
Alert-vaults, battle anxels,
hatchet chain
hitchsafe
flashlight lightening
roadlamp.
BIRCH SADNESS
Throwing-set
feathers,
bruised doorburden,
lightweight
chest bundle,
a small trapdoor.
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Image: by Valeriia Arnaud.
Carrie Bennett has published three poetry books—Lost Letters and Other Animals (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), The Land Is a Painted Thing (The Word Works, 2016), and Biography of Water (The Word Works, 2005)—and several chapbooks from dancing girl press: 22 Acts of Resistance, The Quiet Winter, Animals in Pretty Cages, and The Affair Fragments. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently teaches writing at Boston University. She lives in Somerville, MA with her family.
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