A Letter to Dr Roy (a VERY English department poem)

There's a medievalist in my department I like very much.

She is fun, a little bit rambunctious, and reads the past no less

than with a postcolonial smirk.

No activisty impetus in her as such.

But just a little nod here and a smile there

When Jane Eyre hates being a "suttee" or sits like "a Turk".

Recently she wrote about transphobia and the pardoner's tale

and how Joanne Kathleen was another pardoner, god bless.

"Have you read much about the Canterbury Tales?"

Thanks to you, I said yes.