scent of ozone
roiling the turquoise
whitecaps
still breathing
the weight
of the sea
going out makes coming in visible waves in teal
low tide
a fiddler crab
here and there
the colors of water coquina shells
pelican squadrons
tracing the ecliptic
stratus scud
the sky and sea
switch colors
blue evening
cirrus radiatus
an auger snail
twists in the tide
whipping the saw palm
the same wind
driving the waves
aquarelle twilight
the ocean re-erases
sanderling tracks
Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a large non-profit. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Lana Turner, Sugar House Review, Two Thirds North, Allium, and The Inflectionist Review, among others. His work has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and he is the winner of the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award and the Trailblazer Award.
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