Adrift in daydreams upon the banks of the Nile

an average of 2,830 cubic meters
per second of rich silt
forms an alluvial plain 
spreads outward in a fan shape

from sedimentary deposit whereby
ancient Egyptian civilizations got built
adorning arid topography invaluable
like aorta pumping blood at the nape
of the neck, yet analogous context

engendered engineering feats without guilt
whereby artisans, craftsmen,
early geographers illustrated in frieze and drape
frozen timeless statuary exhibiting
phenomenal abilities to the hilt

associated from mainspring within
fertile crescent swollen like a plump grape
which longest river often overflows
banks whereby coveted materiel gets spilt

feeding the rift valley and allowing,
enabling and providing peoples to dominate
flooding the history of mankind
with accomplishments that marvel even today
epitomized by innovations -

alphabets, wheelwrights, pyramids, etc lives did create
baffling historians how each mortise and tenon 
snug as a bug in a rug mortise and tenon block 
construed edifices persons did intricately lay
perfect with near geometric exactitude

ranks as wonder of webbed wide world great
faint hints of daily trials and tribulations
recorded for posterity in clay
or shards of broken pottery pieced together

coupling revelations a mosaic plate
which functional artifacts
provided dietary staples 
to pagan spirits populace did pray.