Nature The Art of Nature – A Virtual Poetry Open Mic 30 Sep 20201 Oct 2020 The Art of Nature - A Virtual Poetry Open Mic with Tiny Seed Literary Journal's Seasonal Featured Poet: Michelle Sylliboy October 1, 2020 at 6pm EST on ZOOM We…
Nature… Just Be 29 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 Along our path on the mountain’s crest, the air stills and settles among the clinging, overhanging trees in a crystalized chill that encapsulates and forces both the glow growing forth…
Nature… Unempathetic Euthanasia 28 Sep 202029 Sep 2020 for P.W. The sign asked us to not disturb the fallen ash tree but to let it naturally die in peace, to which I wondered why it was then moved…
Nature… Marriage of the Three-Eyed Crow 27 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 As our moon dilates our sun, a sulfuric gas full of memories eases from dried cracks of our desolate earth and rises toward the darkening sky’s newly created inner eye,…
Nature… Muse 26 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 River runs smoothly as we slowly approach, gravel under foot grinding in time with gurgle of the brook. We cast our line, certain on a catch, as water swallows sinker…
Moss and Mushrooms… Chanterelles 24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 A cluster hiding in the understory An orange choir that thrives In some moist forests. Call them Kanterel, Chanterelle, Or Pfiffering—their apricot hue Was a lure for annual woodland Pilfering…
Moss and Mushrooms… Moss & Mushroom Flash Fiction 24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 “A rolling stone gathers no moss” or so the saying goes. But what does it mean? A Google search reveals a definition from Oxford Languages: “A person who does not…
Moss and Mushrooms… Exquisitely Unconventional 24 Sep 202024 Sep 2020 How exquisite they are, A mushroom’s many purposes. To enhance well-being. To enhance bounty. To enhance beauty. I see such distinguished shape and recognize the delicate presence of, A most…
Moss and Mushrooms… Moss & Mushroom Lumen Prints 24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 Moss & Mushroom Lumen Prints by Natasha Sanchez Photographic artist, songwriter & educator Natasha Sanchez has been creating photographs, with or without a camera, and writing songs, with or without…
Moss and Mushrooms… Pincushion Moss 23 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 A cool darknessacross our eyelidsWere we facing north?We could become treesand people would touchour facesto find their wayWe shouldn’t have been surprised to findmoss growing beneath our feetWe had done…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mossy Thinking – Refugia 23 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 Photograph by Craig Burgess My name is Craig – I’m interested in learning and in conversation with the multi-species life-worlds and -cycles of the plant families living along the Merri…
Moss and Mushrooms… Meadow Mushrooms Rising 22 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 When I was young I discovered a fairy ring in my backyard. A perfect circle of crooked, milk white stems topped with smooth velvety caps. I swept my thumb across…
Moss and Mushrooms… The Forest Prime Eden 21 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 The sound of the city a bustling humthat has no wings no earthy smellno rustling leaves no mossed-up treesno puffed-up mushrooms to cushion thingsWhere is my bounty in this concrete…
Moss and Mushrooms… Fungi Around Me 21 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 Photo series by Amanda Taylor I am a glass artist living in the Pisgah National Forest just outside of Burnsville, NC. I love photographing the amazing life that grows…
Moss and Mushrooms… Gloss 20 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 "Gloss" Photograph by Julie Monrad Julie Monrad is a manager at a youth development program, chef, writer, and photographer. Her previous writings have been published in The Esthetic Apostle, The…
Moss and Mushrooms… MUSHROOM FAMILY ‘QUARANTINING’ AT HOME, CIRCA JULY, 2020 20 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 Photo by Stuart Terman, M.D. Enclosed please find a picture I took of some quietly growing mushrooms, hiding out in my backyard.. quarantining like everyone else is at their 'home'.…
Moss and Mushrooms… Orange Mushrooms 20 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 High in the Smoky Mountains, in a forest thicket of fir and spruce saturated with rainwater, often shrouded in fog, fallen timbers lie askew in decay, transitioning back to the…
Moss and Mushrooms… Enchanted 19 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 "Enchanted"Bainbridge Island, 2018 Photograph by Taryn Beato Taryn Ocko Beato is a writer, photographer, and audiobook producer. She studied creative writing and film at the University of Rochester, and received…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mossy Morning 19 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 For a millennium, monks guarded the cedar temple, while thick moss sheltered its roof, its walls. I skip down its slippery steps to walk along flattened stones of a weathered…
Moss and Mushrooms… Magic Moss 19 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 Hike through the mountain forest of evergreens, amble down the winding path where rain falls often, where clouds bathe the woods in vapor. Visit the variety of lush patches of…
Moss and Mushrooms… We Need Each Other to See 18 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 - Field notes from Lost Lake, Oregon Cloudy day in the dense woods where evergreens grow ancient, and the only noise is wind. My daughter and I spread along the…
Moss and Mushrooms… Eyes Enough & Understanding 18 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 Eyes Enough & Understanding My wife, Maggie, and I have had several opportunities to travel to Europe over the past two decades, and on recent trips, we’ve photographed a wide…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mushroom Rocket Ships 18 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 The moss is a holy blanketI am a weary traveler off the marked trailThe mushrooms are all beauty wartson the face of the forest floor(Earth always found beauty marksTo be…
Featured Poet FEATURED POET: MICHELLE SYLLIBOY – A Reflection on Komqwejwi’kasikl 17 Sep 20201 Oct 2020 By Hannah Morgan Rounding the center of the rOUGE gallery were five pilot whale rib bones naturally curving their space and outlining the shape of their original form. From Whale…
Moss and Mushrooms… Morel 17 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 Mushrooms, those delicate answersto a vast puzzle buriedfrom view.Signature of the bond betweendecay and desire.Every feasible swirl and bend,all hues embraced by our imagination,sneaking up on us from behinda curtain…
Moss and Mushrooms… Only the Deer Ticks Pray 17 Sep 20207 Sep 2020 The Last State Park closes on a Tuesday. The woman shuts the gate behind her in khaki-colored reverence. She is the last one to enter, this woman who searched for…
Moss and Mushrooms… Macro Mushroom Series 17 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 Macro Mushroom Series Photographs by Jeremiah Gilbert Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and avid traveler. His travels have taken him to nearly a hundred countries and territories around the…
