February 2020 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Autumn

27 Feb 202012 Feb 2020

Harvest Moon blooms bright as orange autumn leaves welt from tips of tree branches swaying bare beneath the Milky Way galaxy twinkling with stardom on this crisp night. -Aubree Tillett…

Deeply Rooted

25 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

From generation to the next it shall pass; a sanctuary in the woods for kin. Where trees stand like monuments in the grass, and where hardships and sacrifice grow thin.…

Acorns

23 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

Photograph by Andrew Benton Andrew Benton is an MA student at the University of Sussex in the UK, and a keen photographer. He loves to walk and photograph, photograph and…

MY Leaf

21 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

Photograph by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota who takes photographs of things outside when she isn't inside doing all that stuff she does at work. She…

Grey Whale Migration

19 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

I stepped down from clouds to stare off a cliff over a bay full of whales, over the tide of their breath. They heave over waves, take in salt air,…

Nature Photography…

Seek Nothing

17 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

Dawn awakens me and I spring up, mimic youth, act out great and meaningless breaths of morning air. I know it’s always there beneath created surfaces. Noon time finds some…

Nature

Holding On

15 Feb 202020 May 2020

The bigtooth aspens jettisoned their leaves weeks ago four now swirl before me in frigid stream waters that run fast fed by cold soaking rains. The oaks, however, are holding…

The Night Guide

14 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

“Is she a furrier? “The ethno-entomologist whispered to me. We listened to an Australian’s plan for stemming the opossum population through the fashion industry. I stifled laughter and enjoyed this…

Nature Photography

Headless Palms of El Yunque

13 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

Palms of Puerto Rico - Chase Bradburn I wanted to make movies, which made me want to tell stories, which made me want to capture moments. I shoot mostly always…

44.8 x 93.4

12 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

I have sat here on the bluff for ten thousand years, watching. I arrived with the April floods on what used to be a curve in the glacially-swollen Minnesota River,…

on the hike to church’s blue hole

11 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

reverend hamilton leads me down the dirt path the island heat limitless the sky impossibly blue and everything else suddenly the same he tells me the story of each thing…

Lakeside

10 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

Here, the flagrant moon. Spangles of light embellish nocturnal antics on the water's brim. A rush of blue cool, then fireflies, fancy matings. Softly, a riot of resonance. -Janis Butler…

Wallace Stevens

9 Feb 202025 Jan 2020

There was still snow but when I woke the tree beside the river had sprouted birds not like in summer when the leaves blot out the sky but to hear…

Encampment

8 Feb 202025 Jan 2020

Northern lights, drunken ranks of Chernobyl ephemera, waver pink and green high above the boreal shield. In November an odd wind blows sharp from the south, kicking skiffs of snow…

Drake Falls

7 Feb 202012 Jan 2020

Photograph by Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of Wend Poetry Journal, Steam Ticket, Apercus Quarterly, Calyx, and Kansas…

The Disappearing Pine-Woods Sparrow in York County, SC

6 Feb 202012 Jan 2020

Streaks down your nape and over your back in black and grey, a stripe over your eye in rufous brown. If your markings were mine, how exquisitely they would wrap…

Cannon Beach

5 Feb 202010 Jan 2020

Volcanic blue advances. Salt lace tatters the hair of a wakening giant. Twig birds pick the shallows, glassy sand melting under their feet. The beach braces, as the sea throws…

Sycamore Helicopter Pods Remind Me to Call Home

4 Feb 202010 Jan 2020

Before I forget:sycamore seed pods spin tight circles after you throw husks above your head and I know this because my grandmother loved how trees might grow destined for longer…

Most Beautiful Wispy Drops

3 Feb 202015 Dec 2019

-Photograph by Denise M Oehl Denise M Oehl was born and grew up in Ohio. She studied art at The University of Toledo. She moved to New York City…

The Worm

2 Feb 202021 Jan 2020

When the ape arrives in the land and becomes a farmer, he pulls down trees and plucks out rocks to set up his homestead. Immediately, the Worm plagues him. Armyworms…

Lake Kintaus

1 Feb 202021 Jan 2020

On an island in Finland we rowed Into afternoon sun promising Forever gone in its elliptical mold With no other soul to disturb its whole No men to trample on…