let’s just leave

this where it is

cowbird chick

what lies beneath

the press of petrichor

fiddleheads

mansard roof

northern mockingbirds

tessellate

ingenue

a cabbage white passing over

violet pansies

not never but also not common adderstongue

now repeat after me

                                    rhododendron

spring dream

narcissi bursting

from every pore

Rigel setting

behind the blue ridge

bird’s-eye veronica

Sir Galahad

the Chaste Moon

among the snowdrops

white noise skittering across the asphalt spring rain

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Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a large non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Humana Obscura, The Asahi Shimbun, 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 Touchstone Award for Individual Haiku, the British Haiku Society Award for Haiku, and the Trailblazer Award.