Chapbook Contest 2020… Windswept Verses #12 6 Jun 202030 May 2020 In a sugar-green valley I will wakto panes of glass that seal the skyridges of jagged teeth will teeter in the seaand in the east one vaporous peak residecloud-fleets will…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Surrogate Cloud 5 Jun 202026 May 2020 She was a droplet of a little rain wind storming, cloud already fleeting dropping lonely, gathering things: (partnering, parting) Freezing. Hailed me down, coolly nearing melting, kiss from moist lips…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Quality Time with a Spider 4 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 navigating its webfascinating and disconcerting (more fascinating while on the other side of the window) back and forthsuddenly in freefallyet across the windownot just downsoft landing on airthen deliberately climbing…
Chapbook Contest 2020… When Fox Writes About the Mountains 3 Jun 202028 May 2020 her father’s still alive and he is tellingher the tale of the black bear cubs,how they clambered through the cabin windowand tore every shelf down to the floor,gobbling crackers and…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Clarion Call 2 Jun 202026 May 2020 I hear the Clarion River call, she sings me wild. from deep within her rocky shoals, smoothed by fast and weedy waters, fed by snowmelt from the hills of ancient…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Dear Earth, 1 Jun 202026 May 2020 Dear Earth, You are the only nest I’ve ever known. My shelter; my sustainer. I have feathered and molted, held in your palm. In your forests, on your mountains, at…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Spider 31 May 202025 May 2020 Spider,spin your web for me.Fold me in silken cordshammock-likebeneath the stars.Swing me out over water –feel the rush –mother’s bloodwarmth of womb,beating heart.Gird me to the earth,silver strands,lissome in the…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Birds Save Me Daily 30 May 202021 May 2020 from the confines of thoughtmove me into momentsof pure perception: titmousechickadee, nuthatch, wren, woodpeckersmall feet grasping cold, metal cagesheads and necks stretching into holesbills biting seedwings carrying feathered bodiesback to…
Nature… Haiku for each Season 29 May 202025 May 2020 Winter Dazzled by glitter I pause to take in A field of frozen diamonds Spring Pregnant with spring thaw Swelling over its banks Life giving river Summer Out of the…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Alchemy 28 May 202013 May 2020 I watch my mother’s ashes catch the air, scatter and dust the bark of the sugar maple she and my father planted the year before he died. Come spring I…
Nature… Robbing the Pillars 27 May 202025 May 2020 Michael Garrigan, a Tiny Seed Journal contributor, recently published his first full-length poetry collection, Robbing the Pillars. Description: The headwaters of Robbing the Pillars begin deep in the anthracite country…
Achene… Brown-headed Parrot 26 May 202018 May 2020 Photograph by Owen Robertson I am a 12-year-old birder/photographer who has been on a trip around the world with my family of 4. Our travels have included southern Africa, Indonesia,…
Achene… Tree Reflections 25 May 202018 May 2020 Photograph by Elspeth Moore Elspeth Moore lives in Bristol, Avon. She loves photography and art, and primarily experimenting with light and shadows. In nature she especially likes photographing flora, but…
Achene… Mossy Grove 24 May 202018 May 2020 Photograph by Holden Flosi Holden is twelve years old. He lives in Seattle where he loves to take hikes and photographs, and write about what he sees.
Nature… WINTER SPARROWS 23 May 202011 May 2020 Today they’re on my old oak tree a swarm of sparrows suspended on brittle branches. Feathers fluffed into round balls they resemble Christmas baubles, some stare down at a smorgasbord…
