The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXIV, Number 4: December 2022

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Haiku — page 17

autumn rain
the turtle blinks
its amber eye

Hannah Mahoney
Cambridge, Massachusetts

autumn rain
blue in the stems
of black raspberries

George Skane
Georgetown, Massachusetts

autumn breeze
neighbor children watch me
dismantle a swing set

Edward J. Rielly
Westbrook, Maine

feather tip grass...
the zugunruhe
of a caged swift

Laurie Greer
Washington, District of Columbia

split milkweed pods
a sparrow preens
its flight feathers

Kristen Lindquist
Camden, Maine