The earth is dismembered & what
remains gives evidence; clues: history
by blocks displaced as in the Aswan
Dam & the Temple of Philae. Osiris rolls
in the winding sheet of the Nile
(O moisture of the World!) and vainly
cry the well-wishers. Richard Burton
tracked the source back to Lake
Victoria, and back again to the Royal
Geographical Society; no gushing
waters from the cleft rock, only lameness,
fever under the rays of the Sun God, Ra.