June 2019 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Driftwood; 1965

‘According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the God Odin and his brothers,…

Utqiagvik

30 Jun 201916 May 2019

We came in search of the whale’s back and instead, we found its heart. -Poem by Vanna Boccadori -Photograph by Emily Cayer

A Sonnet for the Birds

Anhingas and ravens crow for the emus, which parrot the moas and the kiwis of the Albatross Isles en paradisum’s view, where the petrels join the kites lofting freely …

BY A STREAM YOU COULD LEAP ACROSS, EASILY

28 Jun 201916 May 2019

From the speckled pond beneath the streetlamps, flit tiny fish. They venture out to the ripples, the ruffles the downhill run. They could be trout or some other tiny torpedo…

Brandy Station

26 Jun 201916 May 2019

- Photograph by John Kinney I teach ESL and Linguistics at Northern Virginia Community College. My photographs were recently published in the Nassau Journal and in Float Magazine. I am…

Basking in the Sun, Heron Landing, Juvenile Eagle

Photographs by Cynthia Connolly I am Cynthia Connolly, a hobbyist photographer who recently discovered a love of birds and wildlife refuges. Luckily I live 10 minutes away from Nisqually…

The Mountain Lion

24 Jun 201930 Oct 2019

Through the smoke of wildfires, the mountain lion had the same tint as the moon— dark copper, as well as I could see through the haze that burned my eyes,…

AWASH IN THE DESERT

23 Jun 201920 May 2019

He stoops and rubs his hand across the rough stubble of the mown wheat and stares up into the noon sun which reflects like a beacon off the mostly empty…

Toward an Arctic Circle

There are lines we cross borders we step past where flesh and bone meet cranberries and club moss outside the truth I like to call our lower forty-eight. We paddle…

Nature

Birth of Rain

22 Jun 20199 May 2019

Leaves turn their backs on me silver sides flapping like huddled gossips whisper about the coming rain. Pregnant clouds bloom ripen into labor, they've been holding on for a cool,…

AIR…

Joining Friends

20 Jun 201920 May 2019

May morning on the White River -Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician whose iPhone was very happy a few years ago when it learned that it could take…

Nature

Golden Circle

The driver reeks of coffee grains and bad decisions Suicide rates are up in Reykjavik, he exhales, We're here Gulfoss or the Golden Waterfall second largest in the world…

just passing through

walking this old timber among the grandsons of great oaks and hickory deep in creek and river bottoms or high on glacier formed bluffs I am struck by the fact…

Earth

17 Jun 201920 May 2019

-Jill Boyle Jill Boyles' photography has appeared in Literary Cargo, Passporte Gallery; Light, Space, Time Art Gallery; Forage Poetry and others. Her website is jillboylesphotographer.com.

An Ode to Our Evening Walks

Each day, we’re granted some reprieve, When, yapping brash, you beg to leave. We go. You’re always out in front. You track what’s left behind: a hunt For spots you…

Nature

The Wisdom of the Stream

16 Jun 201916 May 2019

The Wisdom of the Stream is in the depths, unfathomable murky, reminding me to be at ease with what is unseen, unknowable. The wisdom of the stream is in the…

Now, I am the Sunflower

15 Jun 201920 May 2019

I saw him once, He was riding his ivory gold chariot, From East to West. He would end his journey at the far sea. And everyday would come back home…

Moon Meeting

I have late night Conversations with the moon. She asks me about The sun and I Ask her about the pockmarks Dotting her skin. I tell her that I know…

AIR…

Late Spring

12 Jun 201919 May 2019

spring air is so enduring walk to that white maple metronome marking cadences footsteps over the ivy bridge a castle green-enrobed in herbs,perfume of Narcissus, hope luminous play in moonlit…

4 Haiku

Urges Pond ducklings belly flop Furious feet, motor tails — Minnows duck and hide Catnip Tail end of winter — Beside the fire, a striped cat Dreaming of tiger Harvest…

AIR…

The Bond

11 Jun 201919 May 2019

When I was just a speck of dust and floating through the verse, I dreamed that I'd become a planet, vast and more diverse. As luck would have it, there…