"Portals" by Colleen M. Farrelly

 

Portals

always open in my favorite science fiction movies—gleaming and churning through spacetime with the promise of adventure and a new beginning for the story's protagonist—but

peeking
        beyond my front door—
                                            just another Tuesday . . .

~

Colleen M. Farrelly is a mathematician and haibun poet who's been exploring the universe through mathematics and physics since childhood. She's an amalgam of mystic Jewish/Catholic traditions and mathematician-philosophers like Blaise Pascal, with a deep appreciation for meditation and what she learned about public health and spiritual health from South African village shamans in the mid-2000s.