About time

[RiverNotch]

 
 
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.

And here I thought flood myths were strictly Eurasian.

* * *

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.

Should be Elephantine, I think -- at any rate, here I wish I were more familiar with Egyptian mythology, or more attentive in studying the history of philosophy. 

* * *

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

Nothing about stone, though? Well, I guess stones sink.

Didn't see anything anti-patriarchal about this, since I don't think the corporations shifting the responsibility behind global warming to the consumer are led mostly by men (and I have a feeling that some of them make themselves out to be at the forefront of social change, clean corporate culture and all)