The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVI, Number 4: December 2024

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Haiku — page 16

a lone grebe
surfaces suddenly
this autumn longing

Renée Owen
Sebastopol, California

harvest moon
hanging around
fallow fields

C.X. Turner
Birmingham, United Kingdom

homesick
a flute's plaintive song
rippling prairie grass

Jo Balistreri
Waukesha, Wisconsin

wind in the reeds—
our voices lost
to the river's curve

Nalini Shetty
Mumbai, India

autumn air
a game of tag
runs into dusk

Frank Hooven
Morrisville, Pennsylvania