December 2020 – Page 2 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Lessons from the Wild

Walking the saltings

23 Dec 202019 Dec 2020

Wigtown Poem by Finola Scott. Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland), Finola Scott's poems are on postcards, tapestries, posters and magazines including New Writing Scotland, PB and Lighthouse.…

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Laying Down Your Burdens

22 Dec 202019 Dec 2020

After emptying the foil tuna packet I pour in some water, slosh it around and drink it; repeating until I’ve consumed every fleck of fish and drop of oil.…

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Life Within the Desert

22 Dec 202022 Dec 2020

The Coyote’s Melody Sometimes mournfully, sometimes joyfully Yet all the while determined—it sings Like no other, except for itself—carrying Hot paws, empty stomach, yet its Soul filled with life—climbing To…

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I.O.U.

21 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

There are unclaimed promises within each moment you find awe; a contract that has been agreed upon with each striking sight. You become indebted. Choose to keep it sacred, silent…

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Rachel

21 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

Rachel (in honor of nature lovers Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman) She strolled up the rocky Boothbay beach binoculars in hand in late spring on Southport Island orange and black…

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The Eagle

20 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

The young eagle screams from its nest in the towering pine with the broken top on the tiny island across the lily-padded bay. He screams out of loneliness…

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On Animals and Insects

20 Dec 202019 Dec 2020

like children living in the NOW of— futuristic world in a cat’s world it’s only— the present the wolves howl their way into— an ecosystem buzzing bees in world’s microcosm—…

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Into Being

19 Dec 202019 Dec 2020

for Pattiann Rogers did the canyon wren’s descending whistle excavate the canyon? or did the canyon’s steep walls and tumbling stream far below— architect of this gothic gash in the…

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Community Garden, Wisconsin, 9 Months Pregnant

19 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

Footworn rut, dillweed, overgrown squash. The vapor of hose water and hot, early September. I find trash buried in the dirt: a 70’s era Weeble, a plastic Dannon lid, yards…

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Woman as Tree

18 Dec 202016 Dec 2020

She grows from the roots up through ferns, stretches spindly stem toward blue. Inside her is thrum, that thing that makes sap splurge. Without hands, she can’t play music, bake,…

Chapbook Release – Still by Corey Ruzicano

17 Dec 202016 Dec 2020

Still, Tiny Seed contributor Corey Ruzicano's debut chapbook, is available for pre-order! Royalties from the book will go to supporting The Octavia Project., which brings creative writing, art, and…

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The Last Hunt

17 Dec 202016 Dec 2020

In old Kentucky, in late autumn, I walked down the railroad tracks, nigh a man but less a child, hunting squirrel the first day of the season. A late start,…

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Adirondacks

16 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

Water roars over boulders heaved up by ice age glaciers rushes through the canyon boring holes and kettle pools in the eons old rock tumbling and churning down the mountainside…

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THE CREEK

16 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

A single shallow creek flowed through those plain flat fields, but gave us all we needed, its banks a hint of wilderness, free from prying adult eyes, our wigwams built…

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Centenarian Olive Tree

15 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

She holds history in the threads of her taproots. Her heartwood tells the story of rain, seasons of dry sorrow and wind. In her knuckled branches, in her silver…

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Kick-Off: Lessons from the Wild

15 Dec 202014 Dec 2020

Dear Tiny Seed Community, We’re excited to start publishing submissions from our “Lessons from the Wild” theme! It was an honor to read your responses to this prompt. Each submitter…

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Rewilding

15 Dec 202014 Dec 2020

- previously published as a finalist in TulipTree Review’s Wild Women Contest issue. Poem by Tracy Rose Stamper. Tracy Rose Stamper dances with words. She lives in a…

Facing the Fire…

God Elements

14 Dec 202014 Dec 2020

In the beginning before any burning bush God was fire alone it must be so for what is God if not life? what is life if not fire? creation erupts…

Nature

I Spy

13 Dec 20204 Jan 2021

Poem by Chelsea Jackson Chelsea Jackson is awestruck by creativity and its power to challenge and comfort. She uses her poetry to ask hard questions, engage in social…

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Light I Can Hear

13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

I watch, mesmerized at how quickly bark catches fire, and how bark, just as quickly, creates her afterlife in mid-air; I want to join her, and the night, throw myself…

Facing the Fire

Burns

12 Dec 202010 Dec 2020

I’m holding in, the moment, An attempt to slow it, Hiding behind the spider webs, Screaming in the kitchen, They sleep in their beds, Fearing under the sheets, Picking away…