North Star
yule log
my wandering paths
through a year
The smoldering log glows as twilight fades to a chorus of howls under the stars. Grandma says the wood brings luck and protections from wolves and fires and dark, cold winds seeping through my window panes.
a dreamworld
fills with fur and teeth
her yule log
lighting the exit sign
to a new storyline
~
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.
Thank you, Colleen, for writing the beautiful hainka-prose. The family reference extends to the cosmic beauty of our existence and belief. I am delighted.
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