Isis, as a beggar posed,
walks Wa-Set’s Avenue Of Rams.
They bow – beyond perception – low
their horn-winged heads
as by she goes,
her Horus in her hands.
W’thout sandals on her feet she treads;
th’carved falcon palmly stands.
Rent-ragged cloth to clothe her form;
her hair cut close, ‘n deeply brown.
Bejewelled not – only adorned
in wind-struck skin
‘n lines well-worn.
She sits upon the ground.
Her icon-child, with wooden wing,
she places softly down…
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william altoft 