Arc of Herstory

Arc of Herstory




On this day
In history: this day,
This exact day,
This very moment:
We made history
As then now-passed nows
Fell, in time, behind.
Or should we have lingered longer?

Tomorrow,
Today endures, it sticks
As yesterdays dew
On lips, fingers, loves:
Prisms, lives soot-bound,
Forged where black and blue
And soft grey matter.
Or should they have mattered longer?

Horizons stretch,
Dividing sky from sea,
Spaces from heavens,
Ceiling-connecting:
Correcting heres and 
Theres. Refracted chards:
Hope from boundary,
Should we have present’d longer?

Or maybe time,
Like memory recurs,
Circling around:
Deep dark—black—discounts,
Popular recounts,
Same old history—
Same bowed herstory.

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