The Heron's Nest

summer stream
the part walk part swim
of mallards

Bryan Rickert
Belleville, Illinois

southward bound
the rising sweetness
of drying tobacco

Lori Becherer
Millstadt, Illinois

smuggled home
in a jacket
campfire smoke

John Victoria
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

sultry night the coolness of the Milky Way

Sarah Paris
Santa Rosa, California

slowing the wind
to its own speed
sheet moss

Eric Sundquist
Batesville, Virginia