tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post7293601230128749935..comments2023-12-16T02:39:56.603-06:00Comments on Gordon Grice: Death Stories: CremationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post-20801061823976696772011-06-09T10:02:41.306-05:002011-06-09T10:02:41.306-05:00Cool poem. Yeah, definitely interested in the phot...Cool poem. Yeah, definitely interested in the photos.Gordon Gricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13068980330242909601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049832311913108906.post-12257180506040187552011-06-09T09:07:59.475-05:002011-06-09T09:07:59.475-05:00When I was on Bali I got to see a group cremation ...When I was on Bali I got to see a group cremation and a single cremation. I've got photos if you're interested.<br /><br />Estranged From my Fiancée, I Watch a Cremation Ceremony<br /><br />Bali<br /><br />The flame throwers wear the shudra’s name on t-shirts. <br />Gamelans begin like rain. In yellow silk and sun<br /><br />an old woman below wooden dragons <br />strikes a gong. The sky behind the music <br /><br />becomes mortal, the sea evanescent, <br />and the horizon formed, once so virginal at full noon, <br /><br />will not vouchsafe life forever, nor love. <br />Waves and grief sway the priest’s white robe. <br /><br />The skull bursts. The body in the elephant-fish <br />falls through the burning. A veil lifts.<br /><br /> I am the bride.<br /><br /><br /><br />Note: a shudra is a laborer in the Hindu caste and a term for one seeking mental or physical cleansing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com