KELLY KAUR
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POETRY
Image by Jr Korpa
Hungry Ghosts
hungry ghosts gather
roam the streets
fiery burning bins
houses they once inhabited
smoldering pungent joss sticks
sacrificial paper cars
torched replica currency
devouring meandering souls
trail the passageways
a promised peaceful afterlife
it’s not the departed who are adrift
it’s the lost living souls
patiently, I erect an altar
Kelly Kaur grew up in Singapore and now lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Kelly has been published internationally in anthologies and journals: some include Understorey, Anak Sastra, WordCityLit, The Social Distancing Arts Festival, Pure Slush, Fragmented Voices, Short Edition library dispenser, Blindman Session Beer Cans, The Best Asian Stories 2020, The Best Asian Poetry 2021, and in the International Human Rights Arts Festival, New York. Her novel, Letters to Singapore, Stonehouse Publishing, will be out Spring 2022.
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