‘What Heroines Read’, Mary Soon Lee
Art © 2024 Dr T. Eratopo
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The selfsame canon that any hero does—
From Airavata to Zeus: A Pantheon,
The Point of Swordsmanship,
The Care and Feeding of Sidekicks.
They swap the selfsame dog-eared copies
of comic books and epic sagas,
color catalogs of winged horses,
compendia of kingdoms.
And, in addition, a second canon—
The Sceptical Feminist,
The Vagina Monologues.
Wollstonecraft. Plath. Angelou.
No sword as cutting
as the age-old assumption
that gender has anything
to do with heroism.
© 2024 Mary Soon Lee
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