3:00 AM moon
crossing the empty road
a black dog
convincing myself
they must be fox’s screams
witching hour
last light through amber grain
old pond
this bit of flint
ripples the Milky Way
ripples the Milky Way
plum hour
here we are
waiting for death
waiting for death
skunk hour
the iron taste of blood
in my mouth
in my mouth
Nembus
the sound of maple leaves
flowing to the Chesapeake
flowing to the Chesapeake
Susquehanna dusk
the rushing across it
the rushing across it
squinting his eyes
as he blows out cigarette smoke
the crescent moon
Cloud Haiku
slate sky
a laughing gull traces
the curve of whitecaps
Queen Anne’s lace clouds of thistleseed across the meadow
cloudshadow rushing south
across the Appalachians
last moths
Susquehanna fog I slip back into solipsism
as he blows out cigarette smoke
the crescent moon
Cloud Haiku
slate sky
a laughing gull traces
the curve of whitecaps
Queen Anne’s lace clouds of thistleseed across the meadow
grey clouds leaves
stratus radiatus reaching the skeleton birches
cloudshadow rushing south
across the Appalachians
last moths
Susquehanna fog I slip back into solipsism
mackerel clouds
the as-far-as-the-eye-can-see
of the Appalachians
the as-far-as-the-eye-can-see
of the Appalachians
cirrostratus but not a single persimmon
the altostratus sky
to all five directions
road salt
to all five directions
road salt
stratocumulus sun
two crows gleaning
buck bones
two crows gleaning
buck bones
Bionote
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. He has received recognition in the following international contests/awards for his work in these forms: the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, the San Francisco International Award for Senryu, the Robert Speiss Memorial Award, the Touchstone Award for Individual Haiku, the British Haiku Society Award for Haiku, and the Trailblazer Award.
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. He has received recognition in the following international contests/awards for his work in these forms: the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, the San Francisco International Award for Senryu, the Robert Speiss Memorial Award, the Touchstone Award for Individual Haiku, the British Haiku Society Award for Haiku, and the Trailblazer Award.
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