The bone lady lays out the bones
On the floor of the tomb,
Clearing dirt with a chop stick ;
Lays out the frameworks

Of ancestors reduced to stones,
A priest buried for millennia
In the golden sand of Egypt ;
Divines family bones for signs

Of age, sex, and malady,
Matching the forensics
To the reliefs and hieroglyphics :
Quotes history from the relics .