About time

[vagabond]

 
 
 
 
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            i guess i miss something significant about the chamber, so i imagined".. three years to move to the gate" as the stanza´s end.
to make a chamber.
Delivered to the gate, and dropped.

* * *

clouds drift across the sky
while I                                              here i wondered about inserting something like "while i cast down my eyes,/..."  
chop wood, fetch water


a fight for naked survival vs  the creation of a historical monument (though looking at the latter closely the working conditions probably had something of a fight for survival as well).  
 mostly it´s in between..  someone chops wood for warmth and fetches water for thirst: this seems closer to living than surviving.
(that´s just what your poem made me think, i guess there´s more/ or a different story i don´t recognize since i don´t know about tupu and tane)