Sunday

Way down yonder in the graveyard walk

Going to a graveyard...it's not exactly the sort of thing you would classify as a "hike" in the 'States, would you? Here in China the graves are big monuments and they're on hills. So we just hike among one sometimes.

But you wouldn't believe what we did yesterday! We went to a big graveyard. We took this taxi, and when we got there, we started walking down this road. And on the road you looked over and there were thousands of graves. We walked down this road, then we hiked to the top of the hill that they were on. There were all sorts of them. Double ones, single ones, bricked over ones, one bricked over and covered with tiles, incense sticks, etc. etc.

Grave
Walk softly--you are the only one alive in this silent place
Feel the dates, engraved in stone.
1985 February 19th-2004 March 28th.
Touch a dragon and a pheonix engraved in stone.
Then, sit in a shadow of a grave
At the top of a mountain.

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