March 2020 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Envisioning A Clay Dove That Takes Flight

30 Mar 202029 Mar 2020

I was given a miniature clay dove to be my guardian the day living with bipolar disorder became my reality. I placed her on my bedroom windowsill as a…

Spruce

29 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Tall majesty, Tiny cones, Winter snow cover, Cool summer shade. You were my cave, my playhouse. All of your branches, protected me from all of my Enemies, From Unknown armies…

Stages of Life

28 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Photograph by Kip Knott Kip Knott is a teacher and an art dealer who travels the Midwest and Appalachia in search of lost treasures. His full-length collection of poetry—Tragedy, Ecstasy,…

Leaves

27 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Gathering golds, reds, and browns, making mountains just to tear them down. Stepping twenty paces back, admiring. Suddenly lungs struggle to pump the cold, crisp air. Legs gliding, feet barely…

Map girl Forest

26 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Find us tucked in a spine of herbal remedies. The spikes of Earth’s fuzzy head tickling the honeysuckle toe buds flowing from sandstone jugs. We graze along the spotted fawns’…

Ocean Breeze

25 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Wonders from the ocean I glimpsed last year Are calling me back, alone this time No camera, no crowd. Let me lie next to the water, let gravity pull my…

Elusive

24 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

- Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat is a physician, executive, academic and social activist. Gerry is an MD who’s built and staffed current homeless and ex-prisoner clinics as well as a…

Nature

Pollinator Project – Submissions Open May 1, 2020

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Maple Tree

22 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

A maple tree begins as a seed. The soil bears nourishment and water gives life. The sun brings opportunity. Grow, child. The maple tree grows. Your branches reach for Heaven…

Corn Lilies

21 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Winter breaking, spring in the making I was hiking through sage brush when melting snow revealed green shoots lily namesakes for stalks of cereal crop kernels feeding humans and livestock.…

Thingvellir, Iceland

20 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Walk through these broken skins of Earth. You will see the world tearing apart. You feel like you might tear along with it. Was that the groans of a ruptured…

Black Swallowtail Caterpillars on Hairy Angelica

19 Mar 20202 Mar 2020

-Photograph by Richard Lebovitz Richard Lebovitz is a former educator and magazine editor in Atlanta. He is currently involved in rescuing native plants and creating habitats to replace environments lost…

The Great Egret on Calico Creek

18 Mar 20202 Mar 2020

The egret stakes out a place in the shallows, waiting for the tide to deliver the day's fresh catch. With the sun brightening its pristine plumage, it grows ever more…

Two Keys

17 Mar 20202 Mar 2020

-Jamie Nix Jamie Nix began writing poetry when she was in 3rd grade, but did not begin sharing her poetry until 23yo. She had her first poem published with Z…

Dream of Trees

16 Mar 20203 Mar 2020

—“the deepest-rooted dream of a tree is to walk even just a little way, from the place next to the doorway—to the edge of the river of life, and to…

Fireflies

15 Mar 20202 Mar 2020

Crippled leaves rub against each other, cracked bows on rusted strings that sing into the falling moonlight. Their song vibrates on the wind filled with fireflies but is quickly stilled…

Berries

14 Mar 202029 Feb 2020

You got me three black raspberry plants for Mother's Day from an heirloom seed catalogue. Jewel Black Raspberries: the listing said hearty, vigorous, erect, glossy black balls of fruit. We…

Hedge

13 Mar 202029 Feb 2020

Braided into the honeysuckle that chokes the hedge You’ve chosen to trim today under full sun And with a fool’s determination to finish quickly, A garter snake unlaces the vines…

Looking Back III

12 Mar 202029 Feb 2020

Photograph by Jerome Berglund Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and has spent much of his career working in…

Looking Back II

11 Mar 202029 Feb 2020

Photograph by Jerome Berglund Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and has spent much of his career working in…

Three Seed Photographs

10 Mar 20206 May 2020

Photographs by Roger Camp I discovered Big-Leaf Maple seed pods for the first time when I was living on Cape Cod. The locals grew up playing with them as children,…