Five Haikus by Joshua St. Clare

sand dollar

the boy buys the moon

the ocean

chestnut cache

the squirrel

forgets a forest

root cellar

Hunger Moon

in the bushel baskets

Messier 14

by the roadside

Queen Anne’s lace

the new moon 

traces an enso

annular eclipse


Joshua St. Claire is a CPA who works as a financial controller in Pennsylvania. He enjoys writing poetry on coffee breaks and after putting the kids to bed. His work is published or forthcoming in Delmarva Review, Inflectionist Review, Blue Unicorn, ubu., and bones, among others, and has received nominations for the Pushcart.

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