Poetry Drawer: Collaborative Tan-Renga by Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam

a long walk home
on a less sunny day

harmattan haze
the paper boat sail
into the wind

one-way
ticket in the mail

mass burial
of all the emotions
with no funeral

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.

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).

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