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Tan-Renga Poetry by Uchechukwu Onyedikam & Christina Chin

bonfire

power failure
children dress up
in Ojuju costumes
bonfire scares
the ghosts away

midday shade
a flicker of The Village
Headhunter
deep in the dense
mangosteen tree

grandma's clay pot
balanced on her head
fetching water
a well reflection
cranks the pulley

Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists and in print anthologies. Christina Chin and he have co-published Pouring Light on the Hills (2022).

Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. She is 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest and 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.