Poetry
Flower Haiku
September comes
a gypsy moth
in the sweet clematis
toadflax
glittering by the highway underpass
syringes
goldenrod and pokeberry
a door opens
to the next world
aster
risk
first heat dancing in the scent of stolen lilacs
mariposa
I slip
into Erewhon
last St. John’s flower
it begins
with putting on the mask
bowing
into the wave
spatterdock
Titawin
the last chrysanthemums
in the first frost
Joshua St Claire
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania 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.