Volume 2
Thursday, 12 June 2025
The following poems were published on the site from October 2013 through August 2014. They are also collected in the second print volume of Heron Tree, edited by Chris Campolo, Sandy Longhorn, and Rebecca Resinski.
Kelli Russell Agodon: Under This Sting
Paul Scot August: Driving Home, Just North of Chetek
K. R. Barger: The Cemetery
Kristin Berger: Walking the Wrack Line
Doug Bolling: Afternoon
Ash Bowen: Falconry
Grant Clauser: Sick House
Ruth Foley: On Finding a Clam Shell in the Pine Needles
Bernadette Geyer: Parable of the Great Outpouring
Justin Hamm: From the Poet
Chloe Hanson: Self Portrait in Shadow
Amorak Huey: Earl Scruggs and Adrienne Rich Share a Cab to the Afterlife | I Have Harnessed Myself Ridiculously to a House Three Miles Outside a Small Town in Alabama
Lucas Jacob: Not Seeing the River
David James: Camus Re-Invented in Linden, Michigan
Timothy Juhl: Along the Fence, Bittersweet
Kathleen Kirk: Liquidambar | The Idea of the Good
Sandra Kohler: Scent
Jack Kristiansen: Corps
Charlene Langfur: The Shape of Things
Kathleen Brewin Lewis: Order Lepidoptera, Family Papilionoidea
Angie Macri: Psyche Knot
Sharanya Manivannan: Sestina: Two Names
Devon Miller-Duggan: Geology of Separation
Leah Mooney: Melusine
Kevin Murphy: Light Touches
Jed Myers: This One Leaf
Josh Myers: Winter Departure
Eric Nelson: Drought
John Palen: The Catch-All
Lynn Pedersen: Wilson’s Warbler | A Catalog of What We’re Not Meant to See
Jason Primm: Ballooning
Brian Simoneau: Late March
Molly Spencer: Collage | Aubade with Transverse Orientation
Emily Strauss: Sleeping at the Barn
Aaron J. Styza: Science of Speech
Christine Swint: Swimming Stockbridge Bowl
Donna Vorreyer: Surviving a Midwestern Winter
Jeremy Windham: Transfiguration
Sarah Ann Winn: Cranesbill