Cloud Haiku by Joshua St. Claire
Image | Johannes Plenio
Cloud Haiku
my neighbor’s grill fire
cumulus congestus stealing
the remaining blue
cirrostratus dawn deepening the crow’s caw
reflected
in the deep grey
an absence of face
stratus sun
the almost-gone
of carrot flowers
the weight
of cloud on meadow
my debts
empty highway from horizon to horizon altocumulus dawn
stratocumulus wind
the red pines
throwing their heads back
mackerel clouds
all that remains unsaid
crackle of crow
clouds deepening
into steel
© 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.
An intriguing poem. Robbie Cheadle
ReplyDelete“reflected” and “red pines” are my favorite. These were a joy to read, Joshua. We are fellow Pennsylvanians.🤗
ReplyDeleteI love your Haiku, Joshua, and it's nice to see a website for poetry again. Thanks Trevor!
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