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Posted on October 3, 2021October 3, 2021

Sunrise – Day 1

Sunrise, then, o’er the city of the sceptre; dawn about the fort upon the chasm.

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Posted on August 28, 2021

Upon The Floodplains Of The Nile

Crocodiles hold union on the marsh.

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Posted on June 29, 2021November 10, 2024

Nafereti-Iti: Book One

The final days of Nefertiti’s childhood.

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Posted on May 28, 2021

A Prayer To Seshat

Inscribe upon those scrolls, your stylus dipped in deathless ink, the ‘glyphs I’ve gathered swiftly for to fend off time!

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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 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, 2020June 1, 2025

A Song Of Ipet-Isu

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

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Posted on November 9, 2019November 9, 2019

Canopus

Vissuhrah entoombed; brightist star.

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