March 2022 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Apaja'simk - To Return

Girl Setting Out at Dusk

7 Mar 20221 Mar 2022

Drawing her hands through her hair She wove a braid from shoulder to waist, Facing the rough bark As if it were a looking glass. She gathered memories enough. Handkerchief…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Blossoming

6 Mar 20221 Mar 2022

Fierce winds marked the awakening spring blowing into some future time that chill lodged for months in sparse branches. My dogwood held strong green berries bumpling from its charcoal arms…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Instructions for Early Days of Retirement

5 Mar 20221 Mar 2022

Come inside. Quit the crusade on squirrels. We have no use for those berries anyway. Let me brush aside stubborn snow stuck to the shoulder pads of your wool coat.…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Good Morning, Beautiful

4 Mar 20221 Mar 2022

Morning returns, slowly, wildly opening, as if the old window of an abandoned house. Morning always returns, even if you aren’t ready, even if you try not to show up.…

Apaja'simk - To Return

How to Grow Canna Lilies in Minnesota

3 Mar 20221 Mar 2022

On the weekend before the first hard frost, cry a little as you chop down the strong, gorgeous stalks. Play Palm Sunday with the cat with the waxy leaves to…

Apaja'simk - To Return

Cranes

2 Mar 20221 Mar 2022

or tsuru, in Japanese, are signs of longevity, good luck, and happiness. Today is my older brother’s birthday, in a few more months, I’ll turn 35 and outlive him. Finishing…

Apaja'simk - To Return

From Winter

1 Mar 202221 Feb 2022

March skies enshroud hold tight while loosening threads unweave winter leave strings broken into spring spring into broken strings leave winter unweave threads loosening while tight hold splits tombs April…