Potential Titles: Heron

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Snow birds and sooty herons caught - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

The spirit of a heron lifting from the river - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Standalone heron borrowing a pylon - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"

The ratcheting herons return - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"

Open to a sky of windblown herons - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

As curlew, hern, and bittern pass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage" [archaic for heron]

Plucked with the patience of herons - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

With herons blowing like smoke across the sky - Amy Lowell "Hoar-Frost"

A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Listen to the herons and the cranes - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Bringing the priestly heron down - Caitriona O'Reilly "IV. The Curee (from A Quartet for the Falcon)"

Herons wearing the moonrise like lace - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Courteous as dawn over a heron - Richard Solomon "Homecoming (For Linda)"

The blue and silver herons of the moon - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

Great horned owls have not returned to the heron rookery - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

Where flapping herons wake - William Butler Yeats "The Stolen Child"

Fold the kerchiefs into herons - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"


Rested in the dignity of the Great Blue Heron - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"


And ride to the heron-marsh - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"


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