Three Tan-Renga
1men’s vintage
trouser belt
grandpa
in a beige trilby
cycles home for lunch
2
a burning
candle scent
of tranquility
leftover wax
on the sad iron
3
the girl
finger coiling
her tight curls
Friday night
pom-poms
Leaving Home
early harmattanmorning birdsong
in a single note
duet of black-white
magpie robins
spring tree
branching
a borb
in and out
mother feeds
fledglings
barefoot walk
village track road
things change
father gives
a pair of shoes
Note: in this collaboration the italicized lines are by Uchechukwu Onyedikam & the regular text is by Christina Chin
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. X: @christina_haiku
Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian Poet/Photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria. BOTN, Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Poetry Catalog, The Hooghly Review, Unlikely Stories Mark V, among other publications. He and Christina Chin has co-written and published two poetry chapbooks. He’s a contributor at Mad Swirl. X: @MysticPoet_
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