November 2022 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Nature

What looks like perfect peach

30 Nov 202228 Nov 2022

I pluck from the tree—disregardinga few dark spots here and there—this is gonna be a good one.salivating expectationhow lovely this will beas snack, as cobbler, as ice cream.I slice it…

Nature

Wicker Collards

29 Nov 202228 Nov 2022

The First Bite Note: On receiving Wicker Family Heading Collard Seeds, first cultivated in Prosperity,South Carolina in the 1800s, grown out by Nat Bradford and sent in the mail November2021.…

Nature

Trust as Synonym for Gardener

28 Nov 202227 Nov 2022

What else to call it when you dropseeds into furrows where only a fewdays earlier crystals of frost shonein the early sunlight? What otherlabel to apply to those who wouldbet…

Nature

The Grand River’s Cul-de-sac

27 Nov 202227 Nov 2022

A Norway Maple nods to a Ginkgowho laughs with a Kousa Dogwoodat a teenage Eastern Redbud whoin angst spits seedpods on a sewer plate stamped 1948 whereimmigrants are a blessing…

Nature

Yellow

26 Nov 202225 Nov 2022

1. My hair. Faded, maybe, but yellow all the same. Shaved short enough as to have lost its curl.I am unrecognizable enough to go home now. 2. Sunflowers growing on…

Nature

Last Sunday’s Fortune

25 Nov 202225 Nov 2022

"Yet when I consider how, still a man of the world, In belt and cap I scurry through dirt and dust, From time to time my heart twinges with shame,…

Nature

Scotch Thistle*

24 Nov 202223 Nov 2022

At the edge of the garden I find you— heads puffed from a bed of thorns, the white fluff plucked by finches clinging, sending seeds scattering over fields roadsides hills…

Nature

The Seed to the Sun

23 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

Crouch, with knees and hands tight to spine. Feet planted deep into the earth divine. Breath in, towards the center of my being, Held, felt, nourishing my life, unseen. Full,…

Nature

Pandora’s Book

22 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

I opened Pandora's seed library. Let go of my fears about dirt. I have no doubt hope and love will work magic, Revealed in a tiny, green sprout. Poem by…

Nature

Dandelion Spirit

21 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

Photograph by Mandy Ramsey Mandy is an artist, mother, photographer, and yoga teacher who loves to create and write. She self -published her first book “Grow Where You’re Planted” in…

Nature

Songs from the Longleaf

20 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

From incendiary vaporsCome tales of a caperWhere fire the destroyerBecomes fire the creator Clearing duff to plant the seedSeedling from competition now freedBolts upwards to the celestial raysAnd the painted…

Nature

First Night in the Forest

19 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

I wonder if the forestremembers me,my wandering thoughts,the feel of our first touch.Absorbed with stories ofroots, peat, bedrock. Water,her own reminder ofperpetual change. A placefor peaceful self-awareness,viscous renewal.I can never…

Nature

Uncle Thunder

18 Nov 202216 Nov 2022

We’re all ten years old When Old Man Tuolumne Storm, Strolls through the campground. He’s that fat uncle Who spits when he speaks, Cracks his knuckles, Slaps his hammy thighs…

Nature

Confession with Purple Asters

17 Nov 202222 Nov 2022

Summer is offering a bonus month, honeycrisp breeze, sunburn on hold. I love you, fake summer, more than the real, just another instance of changing color. Stepping out barefoot, I…

Nature

California Dry Tethered

16 Nov 202210 Nov 2022

The radio plays back as she named me after an opera. My mother painting me again again. I was her easiest model for practicing various lives on a face I…

Nature

A Window Into The Past

15 Nov 202217 Nov 2022

A manlooks outthe windowto a viewthat turnshis thoughtsbackto the worn pagesof his youth......whilethe seaof green grasswithers andthe treesdroptheir leaveslike multicolored tears.Their bare armsspread wide openbeckoning himto come outside. Artwork by…

Plant Your Words

Unfurling

14 Nov 20221 Nov 2022

Photograph by Felicia White I am a nature loving mountain mama of the NEK of Vermont. Writing and photography are my outlets of expression. It brings me such joy to…

Nature

EARTH MUSIC

13 Nov 202210 Nov 2022

The earth hums, scientistssay, though ears can't hearits wondrous vibrations,the music of deep wavesstrumming the ocean floor.Yet, what stories earthcould tell, they say,if like ancient hunters,ears pressed to the groundfor…

Nature

Summer Solstice

12 Nov 202210 Nov 2022

masses of hot pink sweet williamablaze in raised bedsblooms so loudso nakedthe noon sky shies Poem by M.S. Rooney M.S. Rooney lives in Sonoma, California with poet Dan Noreen. Her…

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Word Garden

11 Nov 202211 Nov 2022

Among the pebbles words scattered like recollections uncollected… left for more youthful meanings to toss and redesign… We meet once again. Poem & Photograph by Daisy Wilde Daisy Wilde loves…

Nature

Wind and Water

10 Nov 20229 Nov 2022

We are bewitched by the beauty of water’s scalloped fringe. Standing lake or oceanside, we gaze, we fear, we enter it expeditiously. Beneath our feet the porous foundation shifts. Wind…