The Heron's Nest

where tradition and innovation meet

Volume XXIV, Number 3: September 2022

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Haiku — page 10

mourning cloak
shelf fungus staggering
up the oak

Brad Bennett
Arlington, Massachusetts

forest bathing—
silver droplets
from a towhee's wing

Jenny Ward Angyal
Gibsonville, North Carolina

old dirt road
gone
to poppies

Brent Partridge
Orinda, California

every kid
a puppet master—
snapdragons

Beverly Acuff Momoi
Mountain View, California

a boy swings a branch swings a boy

Jacquie Pearce
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada