tan-renga series - uchechukwu onyedikam and christina chin

soft rain

interfering with the festival 

Ijebu Ode

sludge under 

pop-up canopies

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

day by day

becoming impossible 

become one

loud speakers blast

election campaigns 

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

appearing 

mud of a charged bull

flying through the air

women and men flushed 

against the wall

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian 'mad' creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He's a well-published Poet. His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists, The Hooghly Review, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and in anthologies both print and online. He and Christina Chin has co-written and published two poetry chapbooks — Pouring Light On The Hills (December 2022) and Clouds of Pink (March 2024).

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. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 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.