Womens History Month
Zora’s Blues
An Acrostic in the key of “E.”
Zora, your life, a shattered window in Winter, once disdained — forgotten.
Ordered in its disorderliness — framed, elegantly arraigned thick vines
Realized — as ordained. your life, an unwitting
Accomplice — your mother’s birth the first inca-
Ntation, the inevitable downfall of
Empires, your emergence into the world from her womb —
Alchemic screams in ancient hoodoo, wise to the
Lesser-known tongues splitting
Earth’s firmament— past suns and moons and stars
Had betrothed you
Unshaken — divested of imperialist social
Restraints — Notasulga, Eatonville blessed — nevertheless
Someone had to be first, an agreement in death
Their eyes were not watching God
Only your quiet sacrifice.
Notasulga, Eatonville rest.
©️KS Hernandez 2023
KS is a poet, essayist, memoirist, editor of the Bazaar of the Bizarre poetry publication. Her work can be found in the Killens Review of Arts & Letters 2022–2023 Winter Journal, 2020: The Year that Changed America anthology, many Medium publications and elsewhere. She is currently writing her first poetry manuscript.
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