The Heron's Nest

senior center
cactus starts emerge
from cracked tea cups

John Budan
Newberg, Oregon

weathering of rocks
the promises we wrote
in stone

Dipankar Dasgupta
Kolkata, West Bengal, India

cabin path keeping track of lost summers

Simon Ekstrom
Stockholm, Sweden

pier ruins
a pelican
on every post

Lynn Edge
Tivoli, Texas

summer heat—
a calf carries
the river home

Mona Bedi
New Delhi, India