The Heron’s Nest

plowed field
in every clod
the scent of home

Rick Tarquinio
Woodruff, New Jersey

soiled gloves
working last year’s garden
into this one

Bob Stewart
Mission, Kansas

her idea
of spring cleaning
a dozen tulips

Sondra J. Byrnes
Santa Fe, New Mexico

warming soil
marigolds pushed in
to their future

Sandra Simpson
Tauranga, New Zealand

ancestor work
all the spirits
distilled

Rowan Beckett Minor
Cleveland, Ohio