February 2022 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

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Role Fulfilled

28 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

Seed doesn't know it will return a plant once loved, now missing to special garden spot, and owner's heart, after transition by storm removal of original parental plant. Poem…

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Autumnal

27 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

May a wisp of my Presence catch your eye in the Woods, my soft grey bones Seemingly intact, Solidly translucent as Mystery should be, As autumnal as …

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To Die Before My Death

26 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

Long before the snow began melting on this mountain, there were deer paths etched through the thin forest and the fragrance of a distant fireplace filled the valley. Be still…

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Two Wildflowers

25 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

I am a woman made up of two wildflowers. One wildflower with petals of soft champagne pink, like the flush of first love. A wildflower blind to fault, rare and…

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A Walk in the Woods

24 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

First, you notice the smells, moist pine needles, bits of bark and twigs, a kind of bitter smell that fills your nostrils and swells your heart. The air is heavy…

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Self, Rewilded

23 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

Searching, I pause under a tree, immediately an irate crow starts scolding me: what business have you here? In a nearby oak, magpies are chortling, amused by this spectacle of…

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Fall Equinox

22 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

Time is relevant—to me. I worry about how many years I have left to hug my daughter, how many years to wait for grand- children. I worry about everything: pulling…

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The Fish and the Ring

Under the brackish water I moved like grass. If you had seen it — the sea robins the cusk eels, the squid, the amberjack the red and gold made brown…

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To Plant a Garden

20 Feb 202218 Feb 2022

Yesterday, I compartmentalized hope. 72 squares, seeded and soaked, I laid a clear cover on top of each cell, Like the veils I place over my heart— Sometimes. But this…

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Burn

19 Feb 202219 Feb 2022

Photography by Anne Leigh Parrish Award-winning writer Anne Leigh Parrish’s next novel, an open door, will be published in October 2022 by Unsolicited Press. Recent titles from Unsolicited Press…

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This Is Where God Is

18 Feb 202218 Feb 2022

Poem and Photograph by Carol Wolf Carol Wolf is a graphic designer and fine artist living in northern New Jersey. She received her BFA from the School of…

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Fallen Grasses

17 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

When fall winds dry and tear green grasses, drying blades appear as mortals. Though summers vivify green masses, fall winds tear and dry the grasses very thin and verdant grass…

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Play Time

16 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

Following tracks into the brush is a losing game. They disappear under yellow to brown leaves, broken branches and into damp earth during the dying season. All things wear down,…

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The Old Snag

15 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

It’s just an old snag. Worthless old wood, not even useful for firewood. Worm-eaten, brittle and in chards. But look closer beneath the crevices and crannies. The dried-out heartwood still…

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Wild Cherry

14 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

All along the hollow lane, wild cherry lets its petals fall, not like confetti, but flake by desultory flake discarded, their purpose served, as Spring bustles on whistling. Its focus…

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Plot 107 Roucan Loch

13 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

When my time comes around/lay me gently in the cold dark earth/ no grave can hold my body down/ I’ll crawl home to earth” – Hozier – Work Song Lower…

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On the Unceded Land of Abenaki

12 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

When I look at the fence I built, four-feet tall, as the dogs romp, I worry about after, when we are gone. What care embraces land? The turkeys and the…

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Lake Erie sunset welcoming us home

11 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

Photograph by Stuart Terman Nice to travel but happier to find our way home to this July/sunset over Lake Erie, as a surprise welcome. I thought this picture--taken as the…

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Tiger Lily

10 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

Garden escapees—thanks to birds, insects, wind, and human hands, They settle in the wild and breed, whether intentionally or not. I have never been one to like the taming of…

Nature

Naidra’s Pollinator Sight: The Secret of Pollinator Ultraviolet Vision

10 Feb 20228 Feb 2022

A new publication from Tiny Seed Poet Gregory Kanhai. A fun, rhyming short story of how Naidra discovers that pollinators see flowers in ultraviolet - ultra-V! It emphasizes reading, research,…

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The Piano Dreamed

9 Feb 20223 Feb 2022

Poem by Anita Sullivan I'm a poet living among the magnificent trees of the Pacific Northwest. I've published both essay and poetry collections, am a founding member of the poetry…