Voyeurs - Jodi Hottel

[Larry Robinson]

Voyeurs
            —after the short documentary Vultures of Tibet by Russell O. Bush
 
We watch others
watch a Sky Burial
in the flapping winds of Tibet.
 
The vultures arrive
from the stony peaks 
piecemeal at first
then as sky avalanche
a tumble of
boiling birds tearing
into flesh.
 
The curious pay a fee
to local officials
make a short climb
for the best angle
snap shots of the vultures
the human body.
 
We watch each other watch
 
            audience
            filmmakers
            tourists
camera lenses

            monks
            vultures
 
their hard copper beaks
brown feathers fluttering
like prayer flags.

	- Jodi Hottel 
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