three haiku by Joan García Viltró

​daisies in a blue
vase under a summer sun
dazzle on the soul

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dive after the gale
‘where’s beauty?’ I ask the fish
‘insolubly gone’

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sea scales burst aflame
ugly starlings flee southward
in bright multitudes


Joan García Viltró is a poet based in Cambrils, on the south Catalan coast. His poems often reflect Mediterranean mythologies and his concern with Nature struggling under human pressure. Published or forthcoming in The London Magazine, Green Ink Poetry, Punk Noir Magazine, etc. Highly commended in the 2022 erbacce-prize for poetry.