Plant Your Words Polka-Dot Wasp Moth 19 Oct 202229 Sep 2022 Grass as thick as hair runs the length of the east fence. Under the half-dug oleander, your shining black setae runs over spots on orange skin. You are born and…
Plant Your Words Bedazzled 18 Oct 202229 Sep 2022 I see something white glint in the sun, falling from the goldfinch’s mouth at the birdfeeder outside my window. Birds scatter like seed when I open the back door. And…
Plant Your Words Two Trees 18 Oct 2022 Two trees, Planted next to one another Watch each other grow. Their roots intermingle And they communicate With each other. They both produce New leaves in the Spring, And bear…
Plant Your Words the shyness of the crown 16 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 with thanks to carly and her garden "crown shyness is a phenomenon in which treetops reach closely to one another but do not touch, forming room to share light and…
Plant Your Words galactic question mark syndrome 15 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 how did you end up on this bipolar planet past its biosphere’s prime on maybe the galaxy’s only world with enough living species to seed all the barren goldilocks globes…
Plant Your Words Celebration 14 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 A man held my arm as if it were his son’s - slid a needle in without pain, pushed isotopes through my veins to light up my lungs. Warned me…
Plant Your Words Becoming a Wildflower and Dutchman’s Breeches 13 Oct 202228 Sep 2022 The time is right to bloom! I know it because my seed has been warmed by the Earth to the perfect temperature. It feels right to bloom! I just know…
Plant Your Words Pine Cones in the Street 12 Oct 202220 Sep 2022 The large pine tree shaded me as I’d sit on the curb talking on my cell phone, keeping UV rays away while cooling me those past summer days. Pine Cones…
Plant Your Words Treespeak 10 Oct 202220 Sep 2022 basswood the splittrunk said see everything dies rootrot for me ashborer horror for the ash mindmelt for your significant other humanhalf bonedust sawdust lifelitter the goodearth inherits us peckerholes and…
Plant Your Words Sunflowers 8 Oct 20228 Oct 2022 The road descends towards the border. One land makes space for the next. The petrol is cheaper. I open my wallet and rely on the vendor to return the correct…
Plant Your Words Restraint 7 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 No speaking is effortless, and not speaking even harder. Sometimes when I talk to the roses I embed, I stop, close my lips, listen to what the green life speaks.…
Plant Your Words Winter Solstice Reflections 5 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Taken on the Winter Solstice..a time for deep “reflection”. Reflecting on nature, so mysteriously beautiful, even on the darkest day of the year; as nature reflects back on the river,…
Plant Your Words The Creek Nearby 3 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 I sat with my son by the creek this evening, the sun a shadow beyond the leaves, and I wondered why the water was shallower than I remembered it was…
Plant Your Words Farmstead Intimacy 1 Oct 202217 Sep 2022 Let the aches and pains remind me of the contentment I experience when working with my hands. Gentle wind in my face, sun caressing my back, sweat stinging my eyes…
Plant Your Words Submission Opportunity: Plant Your Words 12 Jul 2022 Theme: Plant Your Words! Submission Period: July 15 - September 1, 2022 Tiny Seed Journal will be publishing a "Plant Your Words" inspired Anthology as our next Journal theme. While not…
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