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.
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