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poncirus moon
I lick a drop of blood
from my thumb
I lick a drop of blood
from my thumb
summer night
maggots constellate
on its skin
maggots constellate
on its skin
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Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania and 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. He has received recognition in the following international contests/awards for his work in these forms: the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, the San Francisco International Award for Senryu, the Robert Speiss Memorial Award, the Touchstone Award for Individual Haiku, the British Haiku Society Award for Haiku, and the Trailblazer Award.
