the night sky reversed a snowy owl’s wings
the cruelty
of children
winter dawn
polar vortex
crocus bulbs heaving
from the earth
frazil
mackerel clouds fill
the Susquehanna
a grey fox
returning through the snow
hellebores
frozen fountain
still twinkling
the fixed stars
Traumsprache
vixen screams
pixelate the night
I ask my son’s teacher
when she started hating children
winter stillness
give and take the sky almost seen through shifting altostratus clouds
skeletons trees stretching
for the stratocumulus sky
the north wind
piercing
the cirrostratus sky
a red-tailed hawk
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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