March 2019 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Nature in the Now

Looking Out

I was standing in this rock like cave looking out. Photograph by Michelle Wittensoldner

Heron

31 Mar 201925 Mar 2019

All wings and legs, you take your stilted stance atop a branch that seems too thin to bear your weight yet there you stand in search of fish. It’s only…

Nature in the Now

For Joy

Plump pigeons wheel and float, sunstruck necks glittering; gray wings wide, they ride the tufts of lifting wind— a wild, joyous dance. They know the perfect predator perched above, …

Composition With Mature Willow

29 Mar 201925 Mar 2019

I drape my thoughts across the folds of decades past and arrived, point my long spindled fingers like a dial at the verdancy of your lawn. The creeping moon is…

Nature in the Now

Genesis Trio

Genesis Story It is time for renewal It is time for cleaning, for a laying on of hands, be washed by the snow as it melts, listen only to the…

Nature

Snow Boots and Mittens

29 Mar 201926 Feb 2019

I remember the morning I awoke to my very first snow. I was seven years old and my family had just moved to the Willamette Valley from Long Beach, California.…

Chattahoochee River

28 Mar 201925 Mar 2019

Hello painted rock Our heads have not come to meet in a long while. Where have I been? Too long have I been in a prison like no other, I…

Nature in the Now

Breath

Until he hikes far enough away to where lawnmowers do not whine and tires do not hum on concrete to where warblers rustle leaf to leaf until he finds a…

Quoth the Sea

27 Mar 201925 Mar 2019

Beware my kiss among the seaweed stalks the bone-lace wave rubbishing among the pools the whale who booms in to bone-bound muscle. We imagine and then enter it and fashion…

Nature in the Now

Oak Speak

poem by Mary Silwance

Nature Photography…

I should hope to pray like the trees

26 Mar 201925 Mar 2019

“The trees can’t control their lives. We can’t always control what happens to us. The trees can teach us acceptance. And metamorphosis.” - Linda Brown, quoted in The Nature Fix.…

Nature in the Now

Once More

Muted to cornflower, my brain drifts into other blue hues, meanwhile the heavens bleach themselves accordingly. Since I have not slept, I have seen it all: the rise and fall…

Anemone

25 Mar 201923 Mar 2019

Backyard rows bear familiar names: potato, lettuce, pepper, leek, tomato, carrot, onion, beet. Market bins are stacked in simple terms: cherries, apples, kiwis, grapes, pecans, lemons, melons, dates. Bouquets hold…

Nature in the Now

Knock Knock

Photograph by Michelle Wittensoldner Was quite funny, I was actually out looking for owls this day...I was looking in trees and holes, etc. It was as if this squirrel was…

Nature in the Now

The Moon and Venus

The moon rose as a woman today, Face half-buried in a pillow of clouds; Her mouth round, Eyes soft, Looking on me As I walked through pines In the fading…

I Throw Rocks Into the Water

24 Mar 201923 Mar 2019

What is it, gray and ridged, sitting all to itself in a bed of many others? What is it now that I recognize it, that I, with my brief hand…

On The Rock

23 Mar 201927 Mar 2019

poised on a slanted rock not sliding, not tumbling to the Rio Grande below like a rock himself, The Great Blue Heron unflinching in the fierce sun his serene pose,…

Nature in the Now

And in Silence, She Weeps

Photograph by Briana Gervat Equal parts poet, journalist, and art critic, Briana received her masters in Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. After graduating from SCAD…

Nature in the Now

Polar Bear

Who would I be if you died What version of myself—Would I be able to come up to you On the WWF poster and plead In front of all these…

Cardinal Impulse

22 Mar 201919 Mar 2019

Splash of Crimson among the green Out of sync with the breeze’s consequence In tandem but also unsynced with Mate Mate, the color of white socks Washed with a Valentine’s…

Welcome To a Rock

21 Mar 201917 Mar 2019

Inundated, air-bubbling rock - in - a- glass friend I shall emulate you, your prolific confusion of amber and pink and most of all green I have freed you of…