- That he has a falcon’s head
- suggests the ability to fly . . .
- Horus, titled son, soars closest
- to radiant Re, solar spirit . . .
- What is within can be lifted
- from matter . . . He of the keen eye
- aids Osiris in his resurrection rite,
- offering ankh, unguent & oath of protection . . .
- Unseen dimensions open to flight,
- loosed from these bones . . . Set’s jealousy
- forced war with Horus . . .
- Horus wore both red & white crowns.
- This war is not vengeance,
- but the king’s crusade, for reign of
- Upper & Lower Egypt, a balance—
- Set has no currency with an afterlife . . .
- yet, mad Set purifies Horus with his spittle.
- & the Hawk, too, laves his Uncle, with a healing . . .
- “The king,” says Geb with one arm to the sky
- and the other to the earth:
- “A falcon when he takes possession.”
- Say the Ennead: “Behold,
- You have a soul & you are mighty.”
- Horus, now in the Netherworld, will be born
- again. The quiet sphinx, Harakhti, is expectant:
- the lion at the horizon at dawn . . .