The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVI, Number 2: June 2024

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Haiku — page 13

singing its name
into the light of morning
kiskadee

Gillena Cox
St James, Trinidad

sweet timothy
—the lazy whistle
of a meadowlark

Laurie D. Morrissey
Hopkinton, New Hampshire

more liquid
than solid
blackbirds by the stream

Michele L. Harvey
Hamilton, New York

bluer
than the sky it bathes in
sialia sialis

Rick Tarquinio
Woodruff, New Jersey

midnight the almost music of moths

Cherie Hunter Day
Menlo Park, California