The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVI, Number 4: December 2024

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Haiku — page 11

summer drought
my kids' names still in chalk
on the front walk

Gideon Young
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

mid-day heat nothing but the dog's tongue

Bob Lucky
Viana do Castelo, Portugal

origami rose
all the ways
he unfolds me

Leven Fox
Brookline, New Hampshire

hungry ghost moon
night herons gather
for a séance

Eric Sundquist
Batesville, Virginia

the sound of surf falling asleep on the sand

Jon Hare
Falmouth, Massachusetts