Moss and Mushrooms – TINY SEED LITERARY JOURNAL

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Chanterelles

24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

A cluster hiding in the understory An orange choir that thrives In some moist forests. Call them Kanterel, Chanterelle, Or Pfiffering—their apricot hue Was a lure for annual woodland Pilfering…

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Moss & Mushroom Flash Fiction

24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

“A rolling stone gathers no moss” or so the saying goes. But what does it mean? A Google search reveals a definition from Oxford Languages: “A person who does not…

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Exquisitely Unconventional

24 Sep 202024 Sep 2020

How exquisite they are, A mushroom’s many purposes. To enhance well-being. To enhance bounty. To enhance beauty. I see such distinguished shape and recognize the delicate presence of, A most…

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Moss & Mushroom Lumen Prints

24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

Moss & Mushroom Lumen Prints by Natasha Sanchez Photographic artist, songwriter & educator Natasha Sanchez has been creating photographs, with or without a camera, and writing songs, with or without…

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Pincushion Moss

23 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

A cool darknessacross our eyelidsWere we facing north?We could become treesand people would touchour facesto find their wayWe shouldn’t have been surprised to findmoss growing beneath our feetWe had done…

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Mossy Thinking – Refugia

23 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

Photograph by Craig Burgess My name is Craig – I’m interested in learning and in conversation with the multi-species life-worlds and -cycles of the plant families living along the Merri…

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Meadow Mushrooms Rising

22 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

When I was young I discovered a fairy ring in my backyard. A perfect circle of crooked, milk white stems topped with smooth velvety caps. I swept my thumb across…

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The Forest Prime Eden

21 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

The sound of the city a bustling humthat has no wings no earthy smellno rustling leaves no mossed-up treesno puffed-up mushrooms to cushion thingsWhere is my bounty in this concrete…

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Fungi Around Me

21 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

Photo series by Amanda Taylor I am a glass artist living in the Pisgah National Forest just outside of Burnsville, NC. I love photographing the amazing life that grows…

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Gloss

20 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

"Gloss" Photograph by Julie Monrad Julie Monrad is a manager at a youth development program, chef, writer, and photographer. Her previous writings have been published in The Esthetic Apostle, The…

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MUSHROOM FAMILY ‘QUARANTINING’ AT HOME, CIRCA JULY, 2020

20 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

Photo by Stuart Terman, M.D. Enclosed please find a picture I took of some quietly growing mushrooms, hiding out in my backyard.. quarantining like everyone else is at their 'home'.…

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Orange Mushrooms

20 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

High in the Smoky Mountains, in a forest thicket of fir and spruce saturated with rainwater, often shrouded in fog, fallen timbers lie askew in decay, transitioning back to the…

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Enchanted

19 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

"Enchanted"Bainbridge Island, 2018 Photograph by Taryn Beato Taryn Ocko Beato is a writer, photographer, and audiobook producer. She studied creative writing and film at the University of Rochester, and received…

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Mossy Morning

19 Sep 202010 Sep 2020

For a millennium, monks guarded the cedar temple, while thick moss sheltered its roof, its walls. I skip down its slippery steps to walk along flattened stones of a weathered…

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Magic Moss

19 Sep 202010 Sep 2020

Hike through the mountain forest of evergreens, amble down the winding path where rain falls often, where clouds bathe the woods in vapor. Visit the variety of lush patches of…

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We Need Each Other to See

18 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

- Field notes from Lost Lake, Oregon Cloudy day in the dense woods where evergreens grow ancient, and the only noise is wind. My daughter and I spread along the…

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Eyes Enough & Understanding

18 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

Eyes Enough & Understanding My wife, Maggie, and I have had several opportunities to travel to Europe over the past two decades, and on recent trips, we’ve photographed a wide…

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Mushroom Rocket Ships

18 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

The moss is a holy blanketI am a weary traveler off the marked trailThe mushrooms are all beauty wartson the face of the forest floor(Earth always found beauty marksTo be…

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Morel

17 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

Mushrooms, those delicate answersto a vast puzzle buriedfrom view.Signature of the bond betweendecay and desire.Every feasible swirl and bend,all hues embraced by our imagination,sneaking up on us from behinda curtain…

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Only the Deer Ticks Pray

17 Sep 20207 Sep 2020

The Last State Park closes on a Tuesday. The woman shuts the gate behind her in khaki-colored reverence. She is the last one to enter, this woman who searched for…

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Macro Mushroom Series

17 Sep 202015 Sep 2020

Macro Mushroom Series Photographs by Jeremiah Gilbert Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and avid traveler. His travels have taken him to nearly a hundred countries and territories around the…

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Entangled

17 Sep 202010 Sep 2020

The air was heavy and humid As we boarded, shaking the white, fluffy seeds, The bus driver chuckled: If it’s not diesel smoke you’re breathing in it’s the Cottonwood Trees.…

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Hunting for Chanterelles Alone

16 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

When I was young I’d run and hidesqueezing beneath a fallen tree in a thicketbeside my house. Face downon a bed of decaying leaves I’d lie quietlyso I could hear…

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growth discarded

15 Sep 202010 Sep 2020

Leucocoprinus birnbaumii I went looking for the yardstick to measure bell pepper progress and found an unknown gray growth puzzled intrigued surprised how could I have missed this life spilling…

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Shroomzoom Haiku

15 Sep 20207 Sep 2020

Grandmaster Flash now and Zen, spiky-shaped coral doornail dead dreamshades. -Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat MD’s authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. Gerry’s published by Gargoyle, Columbia, Penn, Harvard,…

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Photo Series: Fungi

15 Sep 20201 Sep 2020

Tiny Shrooms and Moss Three CapsFungi Photographs by Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ art has been published in Soul by Southwest, Apeiron Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Jenny, and Change Seven…

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Ode to Fungi

15 Sep 202010 Sep 2020

Concealed by depth and drought, denied the vital element bestowing breath to their fruit, they emerge once again when elephant clouds fill rivers that spill into floodplains. Bursting a cushion…