The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVII, Number 4: December 2025

 

Haiku — page 16

spring tide
in a barnacled bucket
wild blue mussels

Carly Siegel Thorp
Sterling, Massachusetts

night deepens
the lapping of sea
against hull

Renée Owen
Sebastopol, California

one rain away
from sliding in
riverside pine

Bryan Rickert
Belleville, Illinois

rotting timbers
a cormorant hunches
in the rain

Leanne Mumford
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

our shelter
rain drops taking the shape
of the lake

Gary Hotham
Scaggsville, Maryland