Two Haiku

Malawi 

blunt sickles
made from scrap — verge mowers
already done

Uganda 

rowing together
the two-hour journey —
dreaming of Anfield

Roy Duffield recently performed at the annual Beat Poetry Festival in Barcelona alongside some of Spain’s contemporary performance poets who he most admires. He has a first-class degree in creative writing from Bath, UK. Last year, his work was selected to appear in over 30 publications, such as Into the Void; The Journal of Wild Culture; Jalada Africa; the Flowersong Press anthology, About Face: Poems About Body Image; and The Dawntreader. Instagram: @drinking_traveller

Artwork by Myriam Louise Taleb