Joshua St. Claire September 2024
cloud peaks
higher than it ever thought possible
acorn jelly
cirrus spissatus
the angle
of tern's wings
mother-of-pearl
cumulus congestus silhouetted
against sunset
abalone clouds
seabirds scatter
for home
altocumulus sky
three laughing gulls
have their way
cirrus intortus
sanderlings
and the sea
altostratus radiatus
gullwings arching
from horizon to horizon
cirrostratus sky
a moon snail emerges
from seafoam
brown pelicans
returning with the sun
stratocumulus clouds
the shifting shades
of oyster flesh
cirrocumulus sky
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania works as a financial director for a large 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 and awards: 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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