Featured Poem: AfterLife by Shelly Bryant

18 January 2011
Featured Poem: AfterLife by Shelly Bryant
AfterLife
(Reflections at Qing Ming)

Upon death
     ashes and urn
     shoved in a box
     stacked above and beneath
          other boxes

Cubby holes
     where relatives remember,
     burn incense,
          sweep, pray

Like a flat
     stacked above and beneath
     other flats
     where a life is
          lived out



Shelly Bryant grew up in the US, but has spent her whole adult life in Asia. She currently splits her time between Shanghai and Singapore, sometimes teaching English literature and sometimes learning Chinese language. She loves to read, write, travel, and cycle. Her first poetry collection, Cyborg Chimera, was released in October 2009, and her second, Under the Ash, is due out in late 2010. You can visit her website at http://web.me.com/shellybryant
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