The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVII, Number 3: September 2025

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Haiku — page 14

cling peaches
a roadside vendor
struts her sundress

Michael Henry Lee
Saint Augustine, Florida

carefully laid sticks
his hand on my hand
on the match

Laurie D. Morrissey
Hopkinton, New Hampshire

mayfly hatch
how many seconds
make up a day

Julie Mellor
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

Pleiades—
holes in the duckweed
where the frogs leaped in

Dylan Stover
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

summer night
grandmother remembers a moon
with no flags on it

Gordon Brown
Las Vegas, Nevada