Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a corporate controller in rural Pennsylvania. His poetry has been published in The Inflectionist Review, The Delmarva Review, Blue Unicorn, ubu, and The Ghost City Review, among others. He is Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. His work was included in the 2022 Dwarf Stars Anthology, and he is the first-place winner of the Haiku Society of America’s 2022 Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award.

5 Haiku

fledglings teeter
and fall back into the nest
rumspringa


tie temple
what he sacrifices
on the altar


daylilies
one by one at dusk
orange stars turn white


raindrops
we all descend the gorge
seeking the Zambezi


y-axis
of all creation
a pelican's dive