Joshua St. Claire

June 21, 1991: Book of Hours

red fox
screech owl 
bullfrog
barn cat
goldfinch 
fool’s funnel
blackbird
daylily
windfall peach
song sparrow
peppermint
Apothecary’s rose
lyric cicada
chestnut catkin
puffball mushroom
marvel of Peru
differential grasshopper 
white-tailed deer
evening primrose
spring peeper
lightning bug
little brown bat
field cricket 
falling star

tonight
mother and I pray
the Sorrowful Mysteries
jet-black beads slipping 
through light and shadow 

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About the Author

Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a finance executive in rural Pennsylvania. His work has been published in several journals, including contemporary haibun online, Mayfly, The Heron’s Nest, and hedgerow.

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