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| Issue 32: | June 2026 |
| Micro-haibun: | 34 words |
By Joshua St. Claire
On Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Iris
Fingers of moonlight beckon me to plunge my face into the pulse of the artesian spring at the foot of the mossy stone.
through scent of chestnut blossoms lightning
Black Iris (oil on canvas, 1926) by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), who’s widely celebrated as “the Mother of American Modernism,” is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. Though not on display, the painting may be viewed online at:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489813
Joshua St. Claire
is a certified public accountant, financial reporting director for a non-profit, and an award-winning haiku poet who lives in Pennsylvania and brews a mean espresso.
His haiku, haibun, and related poems have been published broadly, including in Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands Haibun, Frogpond Journal, hedgerow, The Heron’s Nest, Lothlorian Poetry Journal, MacQueen’s Quinterly, MAYFLY (haiku magazine), Modern Haiku, Notre Dame Review, and Rattle, among others.
His work has received recognition in the following international contests and awards: British Haiku Society Award 2025 (Haiku Section, Honorable Mention), Haiku Society of America Gerald M. Brady Memorial Senryu Award 2022 (First Place), Modern Haiku Robert Speiss Memorial Award 2024 (Honorable Mention), San Francisco International Award for Senryu 2023 (Third Place), The Touchstone Awards for Individual Haiku 2022 (shortlisted), the Trailblazer Award 2023 (Haiku), and the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2023 (Honorable Mention).
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Ten Haiku by Joshua St. Claire in Lothlorian Poetry Journal (12 March 2025)
⚡ [his smile] by St. Claire in Rattle Poets Respond (29 September 2024)
⚡ Haibun on John Ashbery’s Haibun 6 by St. Claire in The temz Review (Fall-Winter 2023)
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