The Heron's Nest

Mother's Day
the soft peaks
of whipped egg whites

Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota

summer pond
a beaver ferries across
sunlight

Carly Siegel Thorp
Sterling, Massachusetts

daylight
through the pruned hedge
his version of the truth

Carolyn Hall
San Francisco, California

moving between continents
i relearn the sound
of collared doves

Almila Dükel
Muğla, Türkiye

trying to describe
her absence
irises after a storm

Vladislav Hristov
Plovdiv, Bulgaria