by Joshua St. Claire
three laughing gulls
bending the scent of salt
whitecaps
fiddler crabs
sunning on a rock
yaupon holly
firewheel
a northern mockingbird
marks time
sanderlings tracing brushstrokes lettered olive
a mackerel cloud
between them
pelican and sea
a sand fox finds the loggerhead clutch wine-dark
palmsong
gullbones rattling
in a gale
malachite
these white waves
in a celadon sea
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania and works as a financial director for a large 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.
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