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| Issue 29: | August 2025 |
| Cheribun: | 85 words |
By Colleen M. Farrelly
Crossing Paths
She puts out the bonfire and locks up the cabin before her evening jog. The last of the smoke curls around the oak leaves swirling in a crisp breeze. A hint of apple cider lingers.
The air is dry, and the river runs low. She might see salmon spawning tonight.
| leaves swish underfoot | ||
| a lure hits the water | she stops by the river | a skittish quail |
| the last light reflects | darts | |
| down its own path | ||
| across the bridge | ||
| a fisherman catches | ||
| her eye |
—Short-listed Finalist in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #3
Colleen M. Farrelly
is a mathematician and poet who lives in Miami, Florida, and enjoys being a digital nomad. Her writing has appeared in cattails journal, Contemporary Haibun Online, #FemkuMag, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Modern Haiku, The Other Bunny, under the Bashō, and Wales Haiku Journal among others. Her work has been nominated for Touchstone and Dwarf Star Awards, has won honorable mention in several contests, and appears in telling the bees: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2024.
Dozens of her papers on computational mathematics have been published, and she’s co-author of two mathematics textbooks: with Yaè Ulrich Gaba, The Shape of Data: Geometry-Based Machine Learning and Data Analysis in R (San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2023); and with Franck Kalala Mutombo, Modern Graph Theory Algorithms with Python (UK: Packt Publishing, 2024).
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ The HMS Situationship, a humorous haibun story by Colleen M. Farrelly in cattails journal (April 2021), selected as an Editor’s Choice Haibun; see page 137 of the April issue.
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