Poetry by Joshua St. Claire
craquelure
heat lightning returns
to its source
also holding on
to the summer storm
wild muscadines
thunder rumbling
through the Appalachians
Pater Nosters
attuning
to the thrum of cicadas
ostrich guitar
last rites
dew settling
on daylilies
summer's end
the sun and I looking up
at the clouds peaks
thistle sky
I could almost
touch it
shards of mica row after row of field corn
cloud peaks
burgeoning at the horizon
the end of breath
equinox
returning green strikes
the dirt road in two
just because he can roadside chicory
it starts with a line of lavender
cricketsong
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania. His poetry has been published or are forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Lana Turner, Sugar House Review, Two Thirds North, and The Inflectionist Review, among others. His haiku have appeared in several annual anthologies. He is the winner of Rattle: Poets Respond, the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award and the Trailblazer Award. He firmly believes that the interrobang should be added to the standard keyboard.
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