The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVII, Number 3: September 2025

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Haiku — page 3

brittle letters
I remember us
as a draft

Stefanie Bucifal
Konstanz, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

farside pines
a skipped stone ripples
their reflections

Rick Tarquinio
Woodruff, New Jersey

salmon sky...
spoonbills glide
to a bald cypress

Carly Siegel Thorp
Sterling, Massachusetts

white pines
the blank verse
of falling needles

Laurie Greer
Washington, District of Columbia

gathering storms
a shepherd knee-deep
in sheep

Padma Thampatty
Wexford, Pennsylvania