The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVI, Number 3: September 2024

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Haiku — page 5

first swifts searching for summer

Nick T
Frome, Somerset, England

not two feet
off the trail
lady slippers

Rick Jackofsky
Rocky Point, New York

skipping stones—
each ripple moves
the mountain's shadow

Jenny Ward Angyal
Gibsonville, North Carolina

wrensong—
wood frog embryos
wriggle in their eggs

Kristen Lindquist
Camden, Maine

sundown
the pond swallows
a heron

Flory Untanu
Darabani, Romania