The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXVII, Number 3: September 2025

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Haiku — page 4

    the fallen leaves
one war protest bleeds
      into another

Scott Metz
South Beach, Oregon

makeshift memorial
a sparrow leaves
its song

Rich Schilling
Webster Groves, Missouri

winter solstice
skyscraper lights
swallow the stars

Rowan Beckett Minor
Cleveland, Ohio

exhale...
I add myself
to the clouds

Byron Wilson
Talent, Oregon

a sole light
in this dark longing
wave-capped sea

Renée Owen
Sebastopol, California