November 2021 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Apaja'simk - To Return

No one is trying to teach me anything.

30 Nov 202117 Nov 2021

An experience in humility, not a lesson. Patience, too. Tambien, patiencia. Sometimes the wind, sometime the mist settling on the mistletoe, on our shoulders. Bajareque. In a few minutes, sun,…

Apaja'simk - To Return

In the begging was the song

29 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

Don’t let your dreams dry up in the heat You have to keep them well watered I need to know that there are snow leopards Even if I never get…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Stray Verse

28 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

You find a feral word scavenging corners of a parking lot ~ spindly serifs, flea-gnawed tail. Musky as a metaphor, she hisses onomatopoeias, but in her amber iris, you recognize…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Return to Oneness

27 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

Poem and photograph by Nancy Cook Nancy Cook is now retired and an emerging writer. She has been writing blogs since 2010, with much of the writing having nature…

Apaja'simk - To Return

V

25 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

Not just nature, harbinger Tell-tale squawks, echoing “V” in the sky, aimed south Once glimpsed, mesmerizing Shimmering, pixelated, undulating One yet many Leading and following all the same Shapeshifting yet…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Twilight Before Dawn

25 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

The bus clanks and shakes as it takes the turn, puffing down the hill into the darkness. I watch until I see only brake lights blinking at the end of…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Yellow-eyed Penguin

24 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

Photograph by Mellisa Pascale Mellisa Pascale is a writer and photographer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is fond of New Zealand's native birdlife and the many species, like the takahē, that…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Destiny of the Lone Hunter

23 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

What I didn’t see was the vast length of wing-spread and the slow deep wing-beats planing down in a wide circle legs outstretched, descending to the pond’s edge accordion-folded wings…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Welcome back home

22 Nov 202116 Nov 2021

Photograph by Stuart Terman Physician, previously Assistant Clinical Professor/Ophthalmology/Case Western Reserve in my home city of Cleveland. Married with 4 children, 5 delightful grandchildren. Publications in a number…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Live Oaks Listen

21 Nov 202119 Nov 2021

Flash Fiction by Gloria R. Buckley Gloria R. Buckley has been published by Pigeon Review, The Write Launch, Formal People Journal, Ephemeral Elegies (twice), Me First Magazine, Rue Scribe, The…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Coming Home

20 Nov 202115 Nov 2021

The old oak remembers how you danced around its branches singing childish melodies. It remembers your name, and longs to hear your laughter while you swing within its arms. It…