A heron is an egret is a heron.
You’ll see it in marshes or the pages
of Jewett’s “White Heron,” where it enchants
Sylvy to protect it from the charming young
intruder, a shooter in Bean gumshoes . . .
From “Some Birds,” a new collection of poems by George Held of Sag Harbor.
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