"Rhéaume" by Richard Harrison, 1994.
Manon Rhéaume is the first woman to have played in the National Hockey League. In 1992, she signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and played in two pre-season games: one against the St. Louis Blues and one against the Boston Bruins.
Hearing the US men's olympic hockey team laugh at the expense of the women's team made my heart fall. It made me revisit this poem.
When I posted this hockey edit, I trimmed down the original poem so that it would fit well and flow nicely with the four images I selected.
Here is the poem in its entirety:
To forget in the motion of the save that we do not forget she is always a woman and sex is everything. To be a woman and have it be her play that counts. For men to be better than they are.
