i hadn’t realised
how thirsty I was
until I drank in
Niagara Falls
Source: Claire Marsden, 2026
Haiku was entered into the Niagara Falls Poetry Project’s 25th Anniversary Poetry Contest.
Claire Marsden is a poet, a member of the British Haiku Society, and a writer of both non-fiction and flash fiction. She is widely published both nationally and internationally including the privilege of her work being included in a digitised anthology; The Medusa Project, which was sent to the south lunar surface of the moon as part of the Lunar Codex. Her debut pamphlet, Light-eater, is published with Hedgehog Poetry Press.