#How to Hex a Haibun by Colleen M. Farrelly

 

#How to Hex a Haibun

def literary_target(haiku_or_prose):
    if haiku_or_prose==“prose”:
        print("""I gather the basil and bay leaf,
                          breathe in clarity and cleanse
                          myself of coding deadlines.
                          Try an automatic exercise.
                          Turn myself into a daemon
                          churning out procedure poems
                          to a digital notepad. I read
                          what I wrote and wonder if
                          I need more thyme.""")

    if haiku_or_prose==“haiku”:
        print("""burning sage
                          another saved draft
                          autodeletes""")

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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.