- Inspired by Gene Wolfe's THE SOLDIER OF SIDON
Waxen woman
dead in transport
down the dread Nile.
Nubia: you
and that black cat
come out at night.
Moonlight, white, glows --
illuminates
papyrus, glue.
Nails fastened me
to the coffin
lid you hew through.
Lamb-brained friend
ask the scribe why
she prefers you
over dark me.
Pretend Hathor
succors old men.
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