"Mother's Helper" by Colleen M. Farrelly

Mother's Helper

First, I grab a loam bag. Then, I grab a trowel. Sweat pours out of me in the afternoon sun as I weave between the rosemary and mugwort, noting weeds and aphids. I dump the leftovers beside unfilled potters and grab a lemonade.

compost heap—
our black cat adds a mouse

~

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.