smile but you’re not allowed to complain about it caprifig
the morning after the moon now forever out of reach
what they’ll do with me after a vase of wildflowers
rowan blossoms a folie à deux of shade upon shade
fire rainbows roiling the horizon beestung lips
how cozy my shrinking world advancing fogbank
when is a boy no longer a boy blowing bubbles
no one cherry blossom individually bloodshed
mercury clouds the upturned chestnut leaves
the indigo in the prism in the indigo sky
the scent of flowers I don’t know the moon
whitlow grass the doctrine of signatures
cirrostratus duplicatus vanishing point
five fathoms below the altostratus moon
storm over the sound of wind elsewhere
this is why I hide my face thistle sky
the sky lends its azure waves of jade
from the sound of bird calls 3:00AM
PVC the vermilion border of the sky
leaving my body behind ash sphinx
lavender on amber deepening cool
cracks in the wheatfield crows
breaking in the broken waves
all that is hidden chicory
also a blooming whalefall
kintsugi a trite metaphor
distance the green blues
seawind again gullbones
prie-dieu hyacinths
the powers that bee
always never x moon
ABOUT THE POET
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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