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Egyptian

Nut

the star-strewn sky arched over all

aether

Nut bends her star-covered body across the whole heaven, swallowing the sun each dusk to birth it again at dawn; to dream of her is to lie small beneath something vast and tender, held all night by the dark itself.

Fragments

Her fingertips touch one horizon and her toes the other, and all the stars of night are freckles scattered across the blue skin of her belly.

Each evening she swallows the sun and the stars and holds them in her dark until morning, when she gives them back one by one to the waking earth.

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