10


birth 

after birth



— Christina Chin



veiled in the curse

eve the queen of Eden

a dark symbolic thirst



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



9


her tornadic aura...

impossible to resist

tumbling into nothing



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



three boys

and two dogs



— Christina Chin




8


beneath devil's moon

a paradise for outcasts

to hear birds whisper



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



in a quiet room

midnight séance


— Christina Chin


7


tunnel vision

hope will arise to dawn —

sapphire blue sky



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



following 

an implosion


— Christina Chin


6


cultural dance

spin to the rhythm

of the djembe




— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



the traditional 

ritual begins



— Christina Chin



5


appeasing 

the incensed goddess 



— Christina Chin



she bends towards the divine

the arc of Ọ̀ṣun

rite of passage




— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



4


perceiving

landslides and floods



— Christina Chin



the pigeons have flown away

soaring in the rising sun

nature's freeway



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



3


a winner 

on the rostrum… 



— Christina Chin



light of her eyes

swirling around his macho body

with thrust in her heart



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



2


a record shortest day

as earth spins faster



— Christina Chin



laying trust on the universe

i bid farewell

to the passing trials




— Uchechukwu Onyedikam




1



where's she but a dream?

the beauty as well

a fabled city



— Uchechukwu Onyedikam



emerges and falls

in the river tigris



— Christina Chin