The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXV, Number 4: December 2023


Haiku — page 21

Thanksgiving—
the century-old barn wood
of our dining table

Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota

happy hour...
where his story starts
to fall apart

Francine Banwarth
Dubuque, Iowa

November
nothing between
wind and bone

Ann K. Schwader
Westminster, Colorado

fog at midnight
a suitcase wheeled
over cobblestones

Bruce Kennedy
New York, New York

as good an excuse as any hunger moon

Helen Ogden
Pacific Grove, California