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