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Tag: Ancient Egypt

Posted on February 22, 2021February 26, 2021

Thus Was The Girl-Child

‘Midst the dawn’s chill, she watched the night-time passing westward as she felt the tide of heat fall on her bare skin.

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Posted on December 15, 2020

The Death Of Cleopatra

Unkempt, the pharaoh’s hair, dark as the diskless sky, did dress her form.

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Posted on November 24, 2020

Shriek; Undulation

Do you hear?

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Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Issfet Adorned

Sibling serpent.

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Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

A Song Of Thoth & Merit

“The cosmos, then, was chaos…”

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Posted on July 30, 2020

Egypt & Industry: third peak; third sneak

A finely crafted lot of letters nailed into its door, the room, so full in retrospect, slept – spacious; silent.

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Posted on July 23, 2020

Egypt & Industry: another sneak; another peak

The walls of mud-made brick that bind and shape the space they share start to compress – contracting in upon themselves; sharp shuddering.

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Posted on May 19, 2020

Egypt & Industry: a sneak peak

Two paths curve t’ward an empty cradle.

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Posted on April 1, 2020April 28, 2020

A Song Of Ipet-isu

Let sekhem and sesheshet sing in beat-procession, ringing through these ‘glyphed papyrus-reeds!

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