by Joshua St. Claire
lake breeze
the scent of sassafras
rustling gosling down
cats in love
throbbing in the privet
Orion before dawn
could I be
the only one?
cherry blossoms
a child’s laugh
the East Wind shaking
crabapple blossoms
glacial erratics
the red backs of kine
through new grass
spring deepening the scent of birdsong
interstate
a red clover goes on
creating the universe
the speed
that a mountain disappears
budbreak
the silky ant
reaches the tree peony
golden hour
scent of rain
across the Susquehanna
mayflies
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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.