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Scorpionweed

24 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
the purple fiddle-head flowers were pretty at first, adorning hairy foliage so we let them be, a weed, we knew, yet somehow ornamental but then the plants turned brown, leaves…
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Top Down

23 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
If we remove the top predators nature is decapitated and all the seeds fly away. As seeds we can blow anywhere you want to travel. We can even create a…
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Costa Rica Gestalt

22 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
coatiagouti hummingbirdkite treefrogcroc lianafig raincloudforest If I am able to blossom for fruit bats, I will become seed fallen to earth with potential for further development—a seedling   Poem by…
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Chain Tree

21 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
Photography by K.L Johnston   K.L. Johnston is a photographer and poet whose images first appeared in 2014 in South Carolina ETV's in-house magazine "Scene". Since then, her photos have…
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Flower

20 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
The constant friends in joy and sadness have long since scattered after the party or before the tragic news. Are there any you support? If you're asking me I run…
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Patience is

19 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
Gobbled up, by a bird, No greater function, purpose served. But await, bird alights, Leaving stains, Black and white. In it spy, tiny seed, Now to grow, Purposefully.   Poem…
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Chesapeake Street

18 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
Our sunny corner on Chesapeake Street is lined with pine trees and bamboo stalks. She is filled with cherry blossom petals in April, And the deep orange Maple trees of…
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today I gardened with three year olds

17 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
rewind to Autumn when I inherited a raised bed garden from the teacher before me, soil cracked and dry, tan remains of weeds bending in time to the heat blast…
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Learning to Let it Be

16 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
  Poem by Samaa Abdurraqib   Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black/Queer/Muslim writer living in unceded Wabanaki territory, close to the ocean and the mountains. Recently, her poetry can be found…
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Extraordinary in the Simple

15 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
Rose, Orchid and Daisy Photography by Caitlin Garvey Caitlin Garvey (b. Brooklyn, New York) is a Virginia-based photographer whose work explores the themes of identity and relationship. Drawing inspiration from…
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This is How to Talk to Birds

14 Jun 202218 May 2022
This is how to listen. This is how to pray before dawn. This is how to feel alive in your own skin. This is how to feed the birds. This…
Nature…

hope

13 Jun 202217 May 2022
        Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. —…
Nature…

Dandelion

12 Jun 202217 May 2022
It’s your parachute that takes you away, the one of old age that disperses your seed, when bracts bend down for launching your release to the dropping of stamens, dried…
Nature…

Landing

11 Jun 202216 May 2022
The invasion was not what we expected. Everyone had been wrong. The Outer Limits and Twilight Zone had it wrong. The B movies of the old drive-in theaters were quite…
Nature…

Little Forest

10 Jun 202216 May 2022
boreal mixed forest saplings can be planted surprisingly close to one another three per square in a grid of one-metre plots             Eastern redbud and…
Nature…

Dent De Lion

9 Jun 202215 May 2022
Your green lions’ teeth— jagged-edge leaves— devour neighboring sprouts. Day by day we watch your shafts erect until phallus buds unfurl— yellow fronds explode. Honeybees jockey and feast for pollen…
Nature

Alligator Pear

8 Jun 202215 May 2022
March: I hang a young avocado seed, rounded bottom in water, top pointed to air. April: researched its name. 1915 California farmers, renamed testicular “ahuacate” as “avocado.” April-May: a straight…
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Sudden Sunset

7 Jun 202215 May 2022
In a sudden sunset forest In a certain glow of light The last rays of day Cast their colorful fire We watch the deepening The layers of orange upon orange…
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Saltwater

6 Jun 202215 May 2022
The path was gritty beneath my bare feet as I made my way toward the water. A cool evening breeze tossed my loose bangs across my face, dispelling the muggy,…
Nature…

Fertilizer

5 Jun 202215 May 2022
To lie face down in the earth until becoming as soft as the clay. The ground absorbs like the undulating arms of an amoeba. Swallows whole while sucking the soil…
Nature…

Even the Desert

4 Jun 202214 May 2022
Clenched like a seed in the crevice of dry rock and then, first mist like baptism a soft drenching water orb on wax as night falls. The drop stays dissolves…
Nature…

eden

3 Jun 202214 May 2022
1. I’m burning with bloom here, in this own bedroom, where the life-sounds coming from the people I love people I love permeate my sleep. I wake with salt dried…
Nature…

To Wonder About the Dandelion Seeds, is to Wonder About Ourselves

2 Jun 202214 May 2022
I watch the brown puffs of sparrow. They are so many, and so common. In an instant, this could be over. In an instant, nuke or storm could hit, as…
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Almost

31 May 202213 May 2022
Photograph by Ekaterina Suvorova Ekaterina Suvorova has a degree in creative writing from the University of Houston and is currently working on a memoir about her childhood experiences as an…
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Nurse Log

30 May 202215 May 2022
The cedar stump that held my father’s, the professor’s, cocktails, and laid away his endless stories of errant shots and old spaniels, he would be glad to know, has become…
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quarantine altars

29 May 202229 May 2022
I kneel at the petunias with palmfuls of water and because nature prizes reciprocity the purple velvet choir rains hosannas over me. I greet the stately Vanderwolf pine whose silvery…
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seed of the city

28 May 202213 May 2022
daughter of mine, took her in as a dot gave her dirt blankets in a round clay room - fed her with tap water and my sleeping breath. away from…

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We are so excited for our friends @heidisanderwriter and @jamiemnix to launch their new collection of poetry!
Submissions open Mar 15, 2022
Tiny Seed Journal Anthology Forest
Tiny Seed Journal Fall 2021 Newsletter
Poem ‘You and I’ and drawing ‘Bumblebee’ by tiny seed journal’s featured poet Alicia Hayden, Rain before Rainbows 2020
Apaja’simk - To Return
Featured Poet Alicia Hayden -
Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His next book, Becoming Little Shell, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2022. Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.
We are excited to share with you our SUMMER/FALL 2021 Featured Poet

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