Joshua St. Claire
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Haikus
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Verlaine’s green
one Atlantic wave
annihilates another
storm tonight
thistlebloom
out of thin air
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orchids on teal
an Atlantic afternoon
deepens
seaside ox-eye
shimmering across the inlet
ghost bridge
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another 10 mg of Diazepam moon
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cloudbreak
a grey fox
in an aster meadow​
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occluded front
I crumple under the weight
of jasmine
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also seeking the scent
of the peach moon
mayflies
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Susquehanna cliffs
even these billowing clouds
must begin and end
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budbreak day
virga suspended
over long mountain
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cloud panorama
seven crows swooping
out of my boyhood
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vox magica
from the crow’s beak
the violet moon
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pressing my face
into the beginning of time
white peony
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the unexpected coolness
in her hands
pearl crescent
white-tail
the red mountain laurel
dripping from his antlers
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many worlds
the infinite faces
of firewheel​​​​
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the heaviness
of the lightness
of the eagle
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cabbage whites
the pictures I never took
of the sky
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Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a nonprofit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly.