Monday, February 27, 2006

A knight there was

It was not on the shelves with the other children’s books, but in the in-tray – a hardback with a plastic dust jacket and the image of knight and castle suggesting what she little remembered of the book that played innocently with tired literary themes.

Girl, disguised as boy,
Goes off on Crusade.
His/her caravan attacked
by Saladin’s men,
Made prisoner.
Rescued by mysterious knights,
She flees with the king.
The king does not know she is a girl – just a boy…
And, even as the girl falls in love,
She pledges fealty to her king.

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