Modern Morrigan
/In light of recent and ongoing misogyny, this piece is a call to the resilience of women.
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We arrived
when you
weren’t looking.
We’re like that,
you know.
It’s but one
of our myriad skills.
Thunder fills cavities
in our earthbound bones.
Ancestral magic shimmers
through our iron-clad blood.
Yet, you
dismiss us—
present-day Valkyries,
contemporary Sybils,
extant Gorgons—
unwisely
at your own
piteous peril.
We’ve no plan
to abandon
our steadfast mission.
Too long,
we’ve witnessed
your cruelty,
incompetence,
weakness.
We flee not
this trivial tempest,
having been born
of far fiercer forces.
By Michele Mekel
From: United States
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