Volume XXII, Number 4: December 2020
Haiku — page 10
morning train
a covey of quail
flushed from a thicket
Nika
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
gourds at the market
she picks the shiny one
with a belly
Dan Schwerin
Greendale, Wisconsin
pine needles
letting go
of my anger
Susan Burch
Hagerstown, Maryland
broken branches
feeding my loneliness
to the fire
Ben Gaa
St. Louis, Missouri
bone-coloured moon the shape of forgetting
Ron C. Moss
Leslie Vale, Tasmania
Australia
through a curl
of birchbark
autumn light
Laurie D. Morrissey
Hopkinton, New Hampshire
the maple
opens up
to autumn
Peter Newton
Winchendon, Massachusetts
first snowflakes
a little girl holds
a butterfly net
Nikolay Grankin
Krasnodar, Russia
stubble field
stillness ripples
from a kestrel's shadow
Michael Baeyens
Geraardsbergen, Belgium
autumn deepens my underlying conditions
Christopher Patchel
Chicago, Illinois
The Heron's Nest XXII.4
(12-2020)