EGYPT

The most powerful presence

is absence.

When the pyramid dissolves

you will keep

its shadow. its deep rich space.

in you.

Today you are strung,

shivering, with a haunted history.

You are singing dying songs

that hurt. but make you.

Perhaps in Egypt’s death

is your salvation.

Its wailing gods. Its red

heart of desert. Its river

flowing like a stinging

harvest. Cling

and grow you richly.

Bless Egypt.

Bless her passing.