Volume 5

The following poems were published on the site between February 2017 and February 2018.  They are also collected in the fifth volume of Heron Tree, available as a free, downloadable PDF, edited by Carol Berg, Matthew Burns, Chris Campolo, and Rebecca Resinski.

 

Pat Anthony: Coots at Cedar Lake

Deborah Bacharach: Lot’s Wife Addresses Her Audience

Sandra K. Barnidge: Orbit

Kyce Bello: Equinox

Ryan Clark: Prairie

Kara Dorris: Say you say

Stephanie McCarley Dugger: First Syrup, On Making Molasses | Lessons

Alicia Elkort: After the death of both parents

Jennifer Hambrick: Matryoshka

Lois Marie Harrod: Love Poem Stuttering towards a Metaphor

Ronnie Hess: Middleton Owl

Steve Klepetar: In the Bushes

Brandon Krieg: Temple Builders’ Lament

Jan LaPerle: After Running to My Daughter Late in the Night, She Tells Me Her Nightmare is About Snakes, Not Poisonous, and a Little Bit of Bears

Michele Leavitt: First and Last

Angie Macri: They are not there:

Katie Manning: The Book of Ice

Ann E. Michael: At a Girl Scout Lodge

Patricia J. Miranda: Plotting

Gillian Nevers: Letter to Dan from Rome

Sharon Olson: In The Bowery

James Owens: A Prayer for Unison

Alan Perry: Exoplanet

Andrea Potos: My Grandfather’s Home

M. S. Rooney: Touching

David Anthony Sam: Unforgetting

Bradley Samore: Winter Offering

Cameron Schneberger: 8 Maxims for the Hickory Road Ghost

Alec Solomita: My Love’s in a Snowdrift

Phillip Sterling: Fog

Christine Swint: Letter to My Father at the Winter Solstice

E. H. Thatcher: Still Life

Damien Uriah: What She Said When I First Came to the Community

Jeanne Wagner: Gabriel and the Virgin: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation

Paul Wiegel: Uncoupling

Marty Williams: The Clearing (for My Father)

Burgi Zenhaeusern: Rubber Glove