Dante's Heart
Fourteen Pieces
They found his torso at dusk in the belly of a whale and his left leg at
midnight in the clutches of a scorpion. His right foot was buried amid a
potter's shards and his left was found in the maw of the sphinx.
Isis found his right hand in the snows of a distant land and his lips on the
highest mountain of the world. Anubis followed her and aided her without
question. Everywhere they went, the world changed as Isis grieved and
labored.
When they found Osiris's right arm, Isis seared her own hand to seize it
from the claws of a phoenix and a volcano sprung up where her blood
touched the earth. His right leg she found in the deepest cave and when
she spat and cursed Typhon's name, spiders crawled from her spittle.
His head they found cradled on the crest of a great wave. Isis dove into the
water and rode on the back of the leviathan to seize Osiris's skull and wept
at the sight of her beloved's sightless gaze. She had only to find his eyes.
Anubis found the right eye.
Isis and her stepson traveled to a land of rain and cold. They walked the
earth of this strange land and shivered under the sunless sky. "Our father
has abandoned us," Isis said as she looked into the clouds. "We will not
succeed."
"No," answered Anubis. "Your love is the deepest that will ever be, and he
will honor that." As he spoke, the clouds parted and the sun broke over the
distant land. A raven flew overhead. Something glittered in his beak. "My
father's eye! I will retrieve it, step-mother!"
Anubis, god of the underworld, wrestled the trickster to the ground. The
raven fought and scratched Anubis with his talons and where Anubis's
blood fell to the earth, great thistles grew.
"I need my pretty things," the raven cried. "I will not give them up!" He
dropped the right eye of Osiris to the earth and flew off to his nest to
protect the other. Anubis gave chase, but before he could seize the left
eye, the raven flew away and dropped it into the ocean where it was
gobbled up by a fish.
Isis wept and where her tears fell, apple trees grew, tall and covered in pink
blossoms. The raven watched and laughed, for he was Typhon's creature.
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They found his torso at dusk in the belly of a whale and his left leg at
midnight in the clutches of a scorpion. His right foot was buried amid a
potter's shards and his left was found in the maw of the sphinx.
Isis found his right hand in the snows of a distant land and his lips on the
highest mountain of the world. Anubis followed her and aided her without
question. Everywhere they went, the world changed as Isis grieved and
labored.
When they found Osiris's right arm, Isis seared her own hand to seize it
from the claws of a phoenix and a volcano sprung up where her blood
touched the earth. His right leg she found in the deepest cave and when
she spat and cursed Typhon's name, spiders crawled from her spittle.
His head they found cradled on the crest of a great wave. Isis dove into the
water and rode on the back of the leviathan to seize Osiris's skull and wept
at the sight of her beloved's sightless gaze. She had only to find his eyes.
Anubis found the right eye.
Isis and her stepson traveled to a land of rain and cold. They walked the
earth of this strange land and shivered under the sunless sky. "Our father
has abandoned us," Isis said as she looked into the clouds. "We will not
succeed."
"No," answered Anubis. "Your love is the deepest that will ever be, and he
will honor that." As he spoke, the clouds parted and the sun broke over the
distant land. A raven flew overhead. Something glittered in his beak. "My
father's eye! I will retrieve it, step-mother!"
Anubis, god of the underworld, wrestled the trickster to the ground. The
raven fought and scratched Anubis with his talons and where Anubis's
blood fell to the earth, great thistles grew.
"I need my pretty things," the raven cried. "I will not give them up!" He
dropped the right eye of Osiris to the earth and flew off to his nest to
protect the other. Anubis gave chase, but before he could seize the left
eye, the raven flew away and dropped it into the ocean where it was
gobbled up by a fish.
Isis wept and where her tears fell, apple trees grew, tall and covered in pink
blossoms. The raven watched and laughed, for he was Typhon's creature.
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