July 2019 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

WATER

Tides

30 Jul 20197 Jul 2019

Tides Liquid salty skin Lifted, pooled by stealthy moon Wishing. Revealing. -Josephine Pino Josephine is a biologist educator who has recently discovered that poetry, teaching, and science not only play…

Preserve

28 Jul 20197 Jul 2019

We were cold toes in the muddy Virgin River, laugh echoes trapped in a peachy Utah mountain cage, burnt cheeks under eyelashes coagulating tears with dust, jelly limbs after climbing…

Deluge in Mumbai

It was raining since previous night, pouring water from sky-shower, dense black clouds overcast all through the day, storage of millions of tons of water. The city known to record…

Nature

Every Drop

26 Jul 201916 May 2019

Your light singes my roots even deep underground, where worms revel in your joy and all the days' secrets line up awaiting their turn to kneel and unwrap their daily…

In Search of Serenity

In a snowy mountain forest where the crystal clear fountains are running down the hill dancing, giggling with an innocent joy, I stand there to enjoy the calmness, the purity,…

Firelight Rite

25 Jul 20197 Jul 2019

Indian Summer incantations I Whisper through a forest canopy, A blanket with loose weaves to Peek into celestial gymnastics. I flick my pocket knife open and shut To the rhythm…

NOT DOT.COM CALM

24 Jul 20197 Jul 2019

But Bio Chary Immensely fertile Amazonian loam, terra preta was formed either intentionally or by circumstance in indigenous communities millennia ago. Upon examination, that dirt was found to contain charcoal,…

Shifting Seasons

22 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

The four of seasons feels unhitched this year. No crisp day or chill night for need of shawl. October bathes in slow sun, forswears weary winter. No bawling geese fly…

Tune of Nature

Floating galaxies in infinite space are emitting light proclaiming presence, the explosions in it fire bullets of stars which are torn into pieces of planets. Earth cools down rotating around…

Shifting Seasons

22 Jul 20197 Jul 2019

The four of seasons feels unhitched this year. No crisp day or chill night for need of shawl. October bathes in slow sun, forswears weary winter. No bawling geese fly…

California Drought

Daniel Staub Weinberg I am a pen & ink and colored pencil wordartist. I sometimes do collaborations with musician, Chico Feinstein. I have had drawings published online and 2 solo…

Barton Pool

20 Jul 201920 Jun 2019

Barton Pool: Still Life Pre-dawn triptych: me, fog feathers and a great blue heron the color of twilight. Beneath this wet paint, in deadfall and arrowhead grass, dusky darters…

Nature

Meeting the Dawn

19 Jul 201916 May 2019

Patti Castagne is a photographic artist living on Long Island, New York. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the United States and local publications. She began photography about…

Marvelous Mustaches

The snowy pine branches Curled in marvelous mustaches Mayhem of manly men Villains in reverse Gold rush era Holding the snow with smiling eyes With watches dangling From chains of…

Nature

Tree Journal – Submissions Open!

Tiny Seed Literary Journal's FALL issue's theme is TREE/S. We are partnering with One Tree Planted and will plant a tree for each submission, and for each journal sold. (learn more about…

Where You’ve Gone

17 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

*after Ada Limon Confession: I did not want to live here, not among the white pine, Indian Paint Brush, or the poplars, not waist-high in the lily pads that frame…

Hinkley Brook in Winter, Grafton, Vermont

Over and under, it flows beneath jagged glass panes, transparent or opaque, muffled rush of water over rocks downstream. A porch, in winter, wraps around the house like a…

AIR…

Whirling Wind

15 Jul 201920 May 2019

whirling wind light along the length of road with substance, yearns an earth-like calling So nearly sense- like who is wrong for never knowing flight whose mixture so near song…

As the Doe Awaits the Wildfire

i know there is something wrong here the days are too warm and the sun feels like the sky has a date with the desert there are birds here…

On Living

13 Jul 201920 May 2019

“Fire plays an important and critical role in influencing vegetation and the lifecycles of trees and plant communities. Many species are dependent on fire.” Controlled Burning, “Historic Role of Fire,” The United…

Prayer to the Godlings II

Bless the scabs and eyes black as watermelon seeds. Bless the heads bleeding, anointed like green mangoes’ red ripening over their crowns. Bless the sprouts breaking through their own skin…