The Heron's Nest

legal paperwork...
traces of a forest
in her hands

Jacob D. Salzer
Camas, Washington

waiting for it to move
the shadow
of my pen

Francine Banwarth
Dubuque, Iowa

attic silence
the musty smell of mother's
Tobacco Road

Marilyn Appl Walker
Madison, Georgia

air raid siren unfinished hopscotch squares

Nitu Yumnam
Ajman, United Arab Emirates

missing its clapper
heat
within the bell

Johnette Downing
New Orleans, Louisiana