The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVIII, Number 2: June 2026

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Haiku — page 4

where the wildflowers grew suburbs

Rich Schilling
Webster Groves, Missouri

superbloom
the color
of rain

M. R. Pelletier
Topeka, Kansas

swifts
    spiraling
sunlight

Jacquie Pearce
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

     crowded plane
         a pesky fly
on its own flight path

Jeff Kressmann
Northbrook, Illinois

cold desert dawn—
letting the scorpion
keep my boot

Michael Battisto
Oakland, California