Haiku—Joshua St. Claire

Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a corporate controller in rural Pennsylvania. His poetry has been published in The Inflectionist Review, The Delmarva Review, Blue Unicorn, ubu., and The Ghost City Review, among others. He is Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. His work was included in the 2022 Dwarf Stars Anthology, and he is the first place winner of the Haiku Society of America’s 2022 Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award.

Haiku

Portuguese Man-o-War

left by the high tide

a Walmart bag

he asks her if she wants

to see his antlers

Buck Moon

spring tide

I find myself

in a pelican's bill

white violets

an earwig contemplates

the clouds