About time

[just mercedes]

 
 
Tupu-tupu-nui-a-uta asked for rain;
torrents, floods, rising
to engulf plains, hills,
even mountain peaks.
You turned from Tane?
Build rafts, or drown.

* * *

From Elaphantiné came granite
for the temple at Sais. A block
took two thousand labourers
three years to move, even hollowed
to make a chamber.
Delivered to the gate, and dropped.

* * *

clouds drift across the sky
while I
chop wood, fetch water