Pollination – TINY SEED LITERARY JOURNAL

Last Call at the Bees’ Spring Saloon

30 Aug 20206 Aug 2020

They do not even wait for the seasonto rise from his bed, button his buttons,bright-belled and petaled with crisp, pleated leaves on.The bees barely sit until one suddenbrush of the…

I Can’t Mend the Coral Reef

29 Aug 20206 Aug 2020

Today the water is aqua and crystal clearfish too many to count____a school of gar glidinglike pencils of cellophaneover ripples in the sand____a great barracudastalking a fisherman’s bait____like waltzerson a…

Black Swallowtail Messenger Poem II

29 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

Caterpillars, tiny astronauts, harness themselves to fate, wriggle free from earthly suits enter orbital sleep wherein days pass and bodies melt away When their capsule doors open, On spindly legs…

Black-Eyed Susans

28 Aug 20206 Aug 2020

There is a mangy farm cat that found its way to Bethesda in the undercarriage of a pickup truck.Having found sufficient sustenance, (scraps thrown out by Pam’s diner in a…

Why Ra Weeps

28 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

Bee scouts dance, waggle and sway point the way to scented patches: peonies before the petals fall, foxgloves bearded tongues, which, shaded at wood’s edge call like church bells, summoning…

Changing Minds

27 Aug 20206 Aug 2020

Between 1919 and 1959, humblebees became known as bumblebees. Some say the name-shifting influence was the advancement of aeronautics. Smooth airplane take-offs made the bee look lurchy, unfocused...bumbling. I prefer…

Our First Meeting

26 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

A thick mist slides through a sea of trees, crawling across the moss- laden floor. A closed flower arises to meet the mist, straightening toward the sky as night infringes…

A Prophesy

25 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Each place hosts its own baptismal power; each location is a place to be reborn,To be new, each place a place for enhancement and enchantment.With each addition to ourselves we…

Saguaro

25 Aug 202025 Aug 2020

For one night only the cacti raise their headsas flowers. The blooms are as round and whiteand mottled as the moon; they open their ownpillowy craters abundant with melon-fragrancedpollen that…

Evolution of Them

24 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

after a minor eternity looking up into the treethey’re still nibbling overripe ground fruitfinally they’re reaching up into the treegroping its pristine offspringunable to contain their sensesthey’re shinnying up the…

Butterfly

24 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

Compound eyes provide widest visual range in animal and insect kingdom, almost as if each orb sees all the way around itself— with ultraviolet light as friend to butterfly that…

Flower in a Vase

23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020

Molucca balm in glass, upright, parallel to my lips; I inhale mauve irises, muted fixations gathered by another at the seams of us. We’ll fill the uncolored sepal with opaline…

Weeds

23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020

-Torina Stark Torina Stark is a textile shape shifter, mixed media artist, writer and teacher. As a lifelong Minnesotan, Torina combines her love of nature with different mediums to create…

Nature Poetry…

May Baskets

22 Aug 202015 Sep 2020

flash of yellows flutter old leaves scuttled by spring wind swirl tumble across new green as a trembling of finches ribbons around the base of beech and ash early morning…

Persistence of Nature

22 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Photograph by Patrick McEvoy Patrick McEvoy has had stories included in various comic book anthologies, and short plays he wrote were chosen to be performed at the Players Theatre in…

A Most Deliberate Bumbling

22 Aug 202010 Aug 2020

Whitman speaks of loafing, accused by others of laziness. Little did they know the busy hum behind his half-closed eyes, synaptic leaps within stilled hands, that interior gathering of gold…

Sweet Honey

21 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

braided wick welcoming match spark of heat each entwined strand drawing fire down combusting flame up igniting light swaying to whims of unseen breath nudging shadows this way and that…

Moon Diamonds

20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Wet in the spring rainMoths flame out on the wind screen:Seal points pounce and climb. By Heidi Dezember Heidi Dezember is currently employed as a litigation paralegal in the greater…

Sappho in the Garden

20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Early morning pale light Cool of sweet wind Sappho in her loveliness Bends to the soft earth Crocus bloom Pink cream lavender Narcissus kisses dawn Golden graceful trumpets Singing Gaia’s…

Picnic with a Hornet

19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

I dine mindfullyon the porchwithout a phoneor a book.A hornet patrolsthe ceiling,watching meinto the moment.I memorize the poembehind closed eyelids—in between her wingsand stinger. By Kristin Yates Kristin Yates is…

Actias Luna

19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Luna MothDisguised in green, the lunahas dropped like a summer-fallenleaf onto a Norfolk pine—a barren roost. The wingsof a one-week creaturemimic a face with a starethat does not blink. Reticentas…

Tempest Song: Butterflies

19 Aug 20202 Aug 2020

I have launch'd forth from the cliff – Emma Tatham At the house where I teach my private student, we push the squeaky glass door to watch the monarchs billowing.…

In The Garden

18 Aug 20202 Aug 2020

A mourning cloak butterfly settles on a red dahlia, folds its wings and feeds. For five minutes of our remaining lives I sit, watching. -Martha Christina Martha Christina is a…

From Vermont to Alaska: Cultivated and Wild Blossoms

17 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Photographs by Matthew Dickerson Matthew Dickerson (www.troutdownstream.net) was a 2017 Artist in Residence at Glacier National Park and 2018 Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. Although his favorite topic…

Lisianthus

17 Aug 202027 Jul 2020

A window on the world breaks through our dining room: a rectangle of light outshining the white wall. But look, and you will see branches stretched darkly over the sky.…

Queenright

16 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

Wait, listen.Hear the hum.Closer, feel it?The heartbeat thrum.The hive, alive,in harmony.A new queen risesto conduct her symphony. By Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is a children's writer out of Pittsburgh, PA.…

Bee on a Flower

16 Aug 202027 Jul 2020

-Photograph by John Laue John Laue, teacher/counselor, former editor of Transfer, San Francisco Review, and Monterey Poetry Review has won awards beginning with the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize at The…