The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVII, Number 4: December 2025

 

Haiku — page 7

deepening dusk
a string of ibis
threads the stars

Gavin Austin
Sydney, Australia

cool now
darkness slips
beneath two swans

Scott Mason
Somers, New York

blue mussels the larger language of tides

Cherie Hunter Day
Auburn, New Hampshire

winter shoreline
sandpipers shepherd
the tide

Sondra J. Byrnes
Santa Fe, New Mexico

a shell, some sand
my island refuge
on the sill

Peter Newton
Rutland, Vermont