April 2019 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes)

ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) by Steve Brammell Henry Chandler Cowles, at the University of Chicago, developed a more formal concept of succession. Cowles studied vegetation development on the ever…

Transition

Photograph by Myron L. Pulier Myron L. Pulier is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Nature in the Now

Black Pond Road, Cape Cod

Photograph by John Greiner-Ferris I worked as a corporate photographer/writer for years. In 2007 I put the camera down and dedicated myself full-time to the theater: acting, writing plays, forming…

Cultivating Joy

Chocolate eggs sprout in the yard Armed with a whicker basket You’re on the hunt Tulips bloom in cascading colours Red speckled with black You pause In awe of a…

I Know You

- Austrie Martinez Austrie Martinez is an Air Force veteran and internationally published writer. Her work has been published in the Baltimore Fishbowl, Into the Void Magazine, UNBLOC Zine and…

Nature in the Now

Altar

Photograph by Nathan Holloway Nathan Holloway is a poet, photographer, and composition instructor living in rural Arkansas and documenting the experience of being rural, queer, and southern. You can find…

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Fern

16 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

Fern - from the Nature Blues Series. Photograph by Libby Young. I am a photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I am working on a series of botanical and…

Samara

- Julie Martin A poet and a public school teacher, Julie Martin lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two teenage sons. Her poetry has appeared in Alpha…

Hushed Morning

14 Apr 201912 Apr 2019

The sun struggles to stand up tall, above the horizon. The blue sky of morning drags behind the yellow rays, Brushes away the purples of night. Birds chirp, eagerly, beyond…

Nature

Seedlings

12 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

The soft earth below my toes gleans the soil to swaddle these tiny seeds... readying their sprouts to rise towards sunup... that magnificent moment rarely witnessed... where emptiness becomes growth where…

Color by Letters

for T.H. Every day Trevor posts a new painting on Facebook, his pace matching the Vermont winter’s tenacity of days following snow that follow nights following snow. This morning, above…

Nature

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Going

10 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

I think sometimes in silence are sweet tales because what else am I? lying leaves, baring trees springing wintered truth that haunts in the shadows of summer Blindly, butterfly-searching youth…

Seasons of Life

Photograph by Sofia Martimianakis Sofia Martimianakis is an avid hiker, writer and photographer based in Toronto. She completed her undergraduate degree in Literary Studies at the University of Toronto and…

Nature

Grieving Through Nature By Carol Flake Chapman

8 Apr 20198 Apr 2019

During the first few terrible weeks after my husband died in a kayaking accident on a wild river in Guatemala, I wondered why something so momentous and truly awful could…

Robed In Vines

7 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

There were young Trees— reaching with fruitless branches into dreamless stew — wishing they had never welcomed the stranger vines, which creep toward their tips, filching the clean air of…

Zack in April

- Maureen O'Brien Maureen O'Brien teaches Creative Writing to inspiring and amazing teens.

Bulbs

6 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

Small seeds within a face, growing through flesh like saplings bursting from soil. A lilac from a nose – purple rooted in cartilage – A daffodil sprouts from a forehead…

Nature

New Global Art and Poetry Initiative for Youth!

Uneven and Inclined

I used to be the number Nine (uneven orbit, and inclined). But over time, so much had changed. To redefine, left me estranged. A core of rock, and crust of…