May 2022 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Almost

31 May 202213 May 2022

Photograph by Ekaterina Suvorova Ekaterina Suvorova has a degree in creative writing from the University of Houston and is currently working on a memoir about her childhood experiences as an…

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Nurse Log

30 May 202215 May 2022

The cedar stump that held my father’s, the professor’s, cocktails, and laid away his endless stories of errant shots and old spaniels, he would be glad to know, has become…

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quarantine altars

29 May 202229 May 2022

I kneel at the petunias with palmfuls of water and because nature prizes reciprocity the purple velvet choir rains hosannas over me. I greet the stately Vanderwolf pine whose silvery…

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seed of the city

28 May 202213 May 2022

daughter of mine, took her in as a dot gave her dirt blankets in a round clay room - fed her with tap water and my sleeping breath. away from…

Plant Your Words Book Launch – Today!

27 May 202227 May 2022

Tiny Seed Literary Journal has a long history of cultivating a space for poets and writers to share their nature-inspired works with the online world. Two poets that have previously…

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Seed Bud

26 May 202212 May 2022

Photograph by Hugh Findlay Hugh Findlay’s writing and photography have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, in print and online. He is in the third trimester of life. Instagram…

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Progeny

25 May 202212 May 2022

Beyond August dragonflies still stop to capture precious spots of sun. Ballerina leaves twirl to the ground and pile against the girth of trunks weaving coverlets of crimson and gold.…

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Anniversary

24 May 202212 May 2022

Yesterday morning, I saw a lone Sandhill Crane stalking in the marsh sounding its rattling call over and over again for more than half an hour. I felt compassion and…

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Spread Your Wings

23 May 202212 May 2022

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 and spirituality themes.…

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A Story of a Being

22 May 202212 May 2022

The world was a cold, constricting, lumpy, immobile darkness. A tiny “I”, awakened in the soundless obscurity, begun to buzz, expand and lengthen, and rush instinctively upward. The final pushes…

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Potential

21 May 202212 May 2022

What makes it seed when shape or size or species range across a spectrum too wide to comprehend in single observations or even collections of moments of recollections, for discovering…

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So Many Seeds

20 May 202212 May 2022

—“what didn’t you do to bury me/ but you forgot that I was a seed” - - Dinos Christianopoulos I. trumpet vine pod split down the middle dugout canoe divested…

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The Tail End of the Community Garden Seed Swap

19 May 20224 May 2022

Poem by Erica Reid Erica Reid lives in Fort Collins, Colorado; she is an MFA candidate at Western Colorado University and serves as assistant editor at THINK Journal. In 2021…

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Achene with Wings

18 May 202212 May 2022

It’s called the wingnut, the helicopter, the whirligig, that little samara autorotating down for the ground as one-seeded dried fruit that spins from the tree to be dispersed by wind.…

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Iceland’s Strokkur* Geyser

17 May 20224 May 2022

As if a bright blue planet were just being born, a steaming, churning, bubble rises suddenly to burst in the sky with a surprising force that blocks out the sun…

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Seeds of Love

16 May 202218 May 2022

Seeds of Love - framed in raindrops from Tropical Storm Cristobal, 2020 (Lumen Print) Photo by Natasha Sanchez Natasha Sanchez is a photographic artist and songwriter interested in, inspired by…

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Fragile, she is

15 May 202216 May 2022

My palms shivered On a rainy day When I held a life Stick to my skin In her Is a life That is not just her The glory of the…