October 2020 – Page 2 – TINY SEED LITERARY JOURNAL

Nature Flash Fiction…

Why the Creek Weeps

23 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Photos and Story by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi An academic physician and scientific writer, Ricardo has had his fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry featured in the U.S. and in the U.K.,…

Through the Eyes of Nature

Doe

23 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

My hooves surefooted search for firm ground as panting I cross the icy highway that divides forest food from winter beds I cross safely my chestnut thighs surging and I…

Blue Milk

23 Oct 202018 Oct 2020

A late April snow clouds the view of fence line and the trees are an elegant velcro black against the hills. The soft thrum of fattened snowflake drowns sound into…

Tunneling

22 Oct 202022 Oct 2020

below the ground now wet and cold the old dirt greeting the new and becoming mud expanding as the water slips through each surface gap, you worm your way through…

Where is Your Wild

Wollaston Beach

22 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Every morning while we lie in bed before a day of unfinished sentences and clients keeping us long on the phone just 20 minutes away, the apricot sun hits…

Nature Poetry…

Escape

22 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Nature is my escape anywhere I am. I go wild in my mind when I think of it. It’s a refuge anytime I need to get away, To take…

Perfectly Imperfect

In order of appearance: Perfectly Imperfect Devine Ordinary Mind's Eye Photographs by Nicole Thompson My name is Nicole Thompson and I have had a passion for photography for about…

Requiem for a Woodlouse

21 Oct 202018 Oct 2020

Busy sweeping up my house I came across a woodlouse lying on the curve of its back beside an armchair. What, asleep my love? Dead, my dove? I saw that…

Nature Poetry…

Circles

21 Oct 202014 Oct 2020

I am considering circles while I watch the big crow pick at the newly dead carcass of the mallard duck, so fresh the emerald band at his neck…

Dawn’s Gift

21 Oct 202021 Oct 2020

Standing on the edge of night and day I wash my worries with the rain. And paint my hopes in watercolors across my soul, with a palette of Blush Peony…

Through the Eyes of Nature

What Does the Wood Thrush Say?

20 Oct 202014 Oct 2020

What does the wood thrush say? Thus, begins in early May Warbling and bubbling vocalization Speaking to every nation The Creator’s secret concoction To each soul’s provocation Daily the summer…

Nature Poetry…

Autumn in the Wings

20 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Twigs’ lush medium is converting to calligraphy, the dismissal of leaves to launch its winter forewarning. Laden with late acorns, squirrels chuck-chuck meaningless memos, counter-balance full bellies, tails unfurled.…

Nature Photography…

Where is Your Wild?

20 Oct 202022 Oct 2020

Photos by Henry Chen I see myself as a fare result of the post-secondary education effort. Learnt a lot while I was at York University studying Visual Arts.…

Backyard Sermon

20 Oct 202018 Oct 2020

I wandered as a boy Wondered at such Creation From the Almighty Such great imagination Rambling in breezy nocturnal retrospect Soaking in tales and circumspect Myriad stars and katydid choir…

Fallen

19 Oct 202019 Oct 2020

You know the sound – That light scrape of leaf Once fallen. Like an old transistor Radio switched on It crackles Passing along the street With grace and a Gentle…

Nature Flash Fiction…

Crow and Sunny

19 Oct 202013 Oct 2020

I used to watch her running through the dog pasture. She was shaggy. Her ears dark and long, almost to the ground, stuck way out from her head. Seven or…

Where is Your Wild

Sparrow Street

19 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

A riot of sparrows in the hedge, Busy, querulous, all a chatter, Fluffed plump, nosy, never dull, Heads jut out past leaf and stem. A jaunty world of bustle and…

Postcard from Mars

18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020

I, a small red body floating here where your astronauts dare not venture, send greetings to you there on your hilltop, telescopes trained toward me, you who are manufactured from…

Nature Poetry…

Amaryllis

18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020

This summer day, posed against orange zinnias, red geraniums—its hot rivals beyond the window glass—the flowering trumpet offers winter’s gift of white light. Through snow and sleet, while daffodils…

Where is Your Wild

Wild Night Adventure

18 Oct 202013 Oct 2020

An overnight by the meadow under trees rustling breeze, my grown daughter and her children, they asleep, we heard coyotes, young ones yipping in delight, owls, insects, and rustling in…

Where is Your Wild

Sunlight’s Smell

18 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Is it sunlight’s smell The flowers remember In their faint way Or is it night Who covers them With a darkness That lingers As their fragrance Poem by Gerry…

When We Were Kestrels

17 Oct 202013 Oct 2020

It was easier of course. Riding the thermals only required reaching wide enough to make our wings flush with flattening slate of wind. Landing was harder, but you would expect…

Where is Your Wild

Roadkill

17 Oct 202010 Oct 2020

Hawk, a red hawk, Maybe the hawk we saved last year. Hawk, our hawk, Once one has a face, They all do. I killed the cat by pulling away too…

Nature Photography…

Natural Perceptions

17 Oct 202017 Oct 2020

Photos by Neil Berkowitz Neil Berkowitz is an emerging photographic artist and printmaker living in Seattle. He pursued a dual major in photography at the Newhouse School…

Alleyway Vines

16 Oct 202014 Oct 2020

Photograph by Meg Freer Meg Freer grew up in Montana and now lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches piano and music history. She enjoys outdoor activities…

Possum at the Compost

16 Oct 202011 Oct 2020

The opussum is a beast as big as a pretty beagle, of grey cullour; yt hath a head like a swyne; eares, feet, and tayle like a ratt; she carries…

Where is Your Wild

domino grass

16 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Poem by Gillie Robic Gillie Robic was born in India and lives in London. Her poems have appeared in the UK and the US. Her two collections, "Swimming Through…