Ten Haiku Poems by Joshua St. Claire

 

Ten Haiku Poems

one cloud blocks the sun
and they all go grey
funeral service

false thaw melting into my teacup

high-tension lines
hidden below its reflection
the stem of a waterlily

yellow violets
once again mother tells me
some things never get better

sinistral snail
you wouldn’t know
to look at me

lily of the Nile
a child’s hand
gives me the sky

beginning and ending
at the crest of a ditch
daylilies

Cocalico Creek
reaching its banks
fractus clouds

the west wind
shakes the white tulips
meringue

briar rose
the goats devour
spring stars

 

Joshua St. Claire (Michael Winter) is an accountant who works as a financial executive for a large non-profit rural Pennsylvania, USA. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Allium, Lotus-eater, Burningword Literary Journal, Delmarva Review, and Ghost City Review, among others. He is Pushcart Prize, Rhysling Award and Best of the Net nominee. His work has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and he is the winner of the 2022 Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award.