The Heron's Nest

putting my backpack
gently on the rock
winter butterfly

Makoto Nakanishi
Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan

snowy woods—
the tucked-wing glide
of a woodpecker

Kevin Valentine
Mesquite, Texas

quartering the field
         a barn owl
    holds my breath

Nick T
Frome, Somerset, England

spreading the melancholy thin winter sun

Scott Mason
Somers, New York

winter milking
the slump
of Dad's shoulders

Edward J. Rielly
Westbrook, Maine