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| Issue 30X: | Dec. 2025 |
| Haibun: | 78 words |
| (Sudo-ku-bun) |
By Colleen M. Farrelly
Counting Degrees*
I shuffle through sidewalk snow gray as the paint peeling in the auditorium. Bleary-eyed, I sip one last mocha latte before taking my seat. Six questions until I can sleep. Six questions to determine my final grade. Six questions before I finish my education forever. I tap my number two pencil and hope it covers magnetism.
| equinox | balancing | my equations |
| a superposition of | field states | the collapse |
| seasons | my fragility | unfolds |
*a multi-haikai hybrid, aka sudo-ku-bun
[For details, see Multi-haiku sequence in Farrelly’s essay “The Haibun Zoo” here in MacQ.]
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