May 2019 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

The Universe is a Loud Place

NASA has recorded the interactions of electromagnetic particles from solar wind, ionosphere, and planetary magnetosphere, and translated these vibrations into sound waves. Lie on your back on the front…

WATER

Love and Water

30 May 201916 May 2019

After a full body massage my body is an ocean—I swim inside it. I saw the creator there; no, I felt the creator; no, I knew the creator and she…

Ladybug, Ladybug

Roly-poly firebug, round as a gumdrop, alights on a jumper, blazing like Lucifer. She glows, all splotched with hot coal dots-- bright button stitched on a Sunday frock. …

AIR…

Cicada

27 May 201918 May 2019

seven, ten, seventeen years away and interred, churning the fecund rot until a soundless alarm directs them skyward they emerge from their quasi-graves…

Will to Life

24 May 201919 May 2019

one over nothing in succession in the covering this of the new snow soundlessly the hills the environs unfolding toward somewhere migratory instinct lightly threaded overhead I admit I know…

August

the sliced peach heavy with juice glistens on the summer plate chunks torn from the pit jagged where red life seeped into the yellow flesh chewy skin dried…

WATER

Aqua Botanica: Offerings from the Sea

22 May 201916 May 2019

Aqua Botanica preserves seaweed washed up on the western shores of Newfoundland, and captures both its essence and its dimensionality. The series speaks to the capacity of art to transform…

Ferns

The hardy, Irish wild fern sits in the dark, wet garden of my childhood. I scrape its black spores off the back of its body - spores that won't…

Mulberry Storm

20 May 201918 May 2019

Heaven howled at sundown then all night pelted every window shook every door reminding me when I was a child and the great aunts turned off the radio and all…

Owl Eye

All thinking stop for a moment, at least, so I might look this owl in his pitch black eyeball of shine and sorrow and ask him please, to show me…

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pinecone

17 May 20197 May 2019

Petrified artichoke; miniature pineapple; flowerless bud; raccoon’s shuttlecock; scepter of seeds; mosquitoes' drinking cup; snout of the bear that follows you home; Fibonacci's dreamscape; 3-D mandala; missile launched by squirrel…

Three Haiku

Full pothole on a dry road - splash! * Leaf fall - spiders bursting from the web * Bumbling along behind glass - first bee of spring - James…

Something of the Marvelous

15 May 201913 May 2019

Amy Stonestrom is an emerging writer from western Wisconsin. She is currently an MFA candidate in Bay Path University's creative nonfiction program. Her essays and photography have been published in…

pheromone dysphoria

if only the bees would swarm for me but i am not proficient in the queen’s english yet i must insist my musk speaks matriarchy -Vivian Ia Vivian Ia lives…

AIR…

Drips of Dew

12 May 20197 May 2019

Long ago and far away, atop a mountain, Promises were made. Ideal, naive selves present. Words without witness fall too easily to the ground. Do they splash or…

Ash

10 May 20193 May 2019

White moths without eyes absent mouths, single winged remnants of combusted life thermal motion relieved of flame. You weave wild, lifted by swirling air that catches…

Savor

At the pepper peddler, red through purple hues waxy sweet in the sun. Each row a rainbow with heirloom types ripe, with smells to wake the April smile. Sweater draped…

Love Poem to a Mushroom

Tiny turkey-tail treasures etched with essence of earth. Color of northwest sea-forest southwest desert-dirt. Lines of landscape as seen from sky and iridescent dragonfly eye. Fuzzy to my fingers, who…

Life Cycle

7 May 20195 May 2019

Once a brilliant green jewel in a treetop’s crown this fading brown leaf on its journey back to soil slow-motion wobbles while floating down …

cloudless

sky thru pines before twilight cloudless pink, fire opal shimmer, stillness. this sky — the rosy mantle of benediction. – Carol Lynne Knight As co-director of Anhinga Press, Carol Lynne…

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Thank you!

4 May 20194 May 2019

We are currently going through all the submissions. If you have not heard from us, you will soon! We received so many excellent poems and photographs, thank you all for…