Tuesday, July 7, 2009

sky burial

sky burial [doug duffey]

to move the uncertain

the body skepticism

flesh was preparation

exclusively disassembling

ritual flaying

limbs and body

given to hawks


birds fly eyewitness

preceding procedures and

the less favored places


accounts specify more facts

the male the procedure

first - bones and body

considered tool flesh

stripped from bones

physical milk simply processed

the hole only the tsampa


they were given broken up

ground with the hair

crows and internal organs

and birds bits in

bone flour with yak

the departeds accounts and

any other hacked assistants


omens processed

the removed head expresses

its Sanskrit soul easier

chant mantra activities

body and incense labor

tasks with ceremony

monastery Buddhist teachings

or rather plane talk


the body decomposes

the soul consumed

burn juniper

quality meat

the bones

stick offerings

vultures vultures

cartilage vultures

keeping away

gravity


July 7, 2009 MLU [c] 2009 doug duffey

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