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Thursday 11 July 2024

Tales in The Moonlight

The Winged Moon Magazine

Jai Michelle Louissen, EIC and Lana Al Habl.






Double Tan-Renga Split Sequence 

Christina Chin and
Uchechukwu Onyedikam 


Tales In The Moonlight 



the tradition 


burning herbs 

its scents

Ilé-Orí



of getting high on spirits


     long queue 

     in the tattered hut


palm wine tapper


the sap flows

three times

daily


in the treetop


     collecting last night's 

     toddy


Ógógóró


libation 

life’s devotion 

concerns 


stick graphics


     ancestral shaman 

     locked in a trance


on the cave walls


the dig —

learning history

artifacts of our forebear 


running errands


     a ritual 

     traps his soul 


an avenger


goes about 

comes back about 

the rebound 


Èṣù