Ruth Whitman Poems

When I was six
my father Thutmose the First
lifted me up to sit beside him
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Khnum the Potter
father of fathers
mother of mothers
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Before my father came to the throne
there was chaos in our double kingdom-
from the Great Green Sea on the north
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floods, recedes, floods.
And over us stretches Nut,
the goddess who is the sky.
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