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Apaja'simk - To Return

To Plant a Garden

20 Feb 202218 Feb 2022
Yesterday, I compartmentalized hope. 72 squares, seeded and soaked, I laid a clear cover on top of each cell, Like the veils I place over my heart— Sometimes. But this…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Burn

19 Feb 202219 Feb 2022
  Photography by Anne Leigh Parrish Award-winning writer Anne Leigh Parrish’s next novel, an open door, will be published in October 2022 by Unsolicited Press. Recent titles from Unsolicited Press…
Apaja'simk - To Return

This Is Where God Is

18 Feb 202218 Feb 2022
  Poem and Photograph by Carol Wolf   Carol Wolf is a graphic designer and fine artist living in northern New Jersey. She received her BFA from the School of…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Fallen Grasses

17 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
When fall winds dry and tear green grasses, drying blades appear as mortals. Though summers vivify green masses, fall winds tear and dry the grasses very thin and verdant grass…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Play Time

16 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Following tracks into the brush is a losing game. They disappear under yellow to brown leaves, broken branches and into damp earth during the dying season. All things wear down,…
Apaja'simk - To Return

The Old Snag

15 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
It’s just an old snag. Worthless old wood, not even useful for firewood. Worm-eaten, brittle and in chards. But look closer beneath the crevices and crannies. The dried-out heartwood still…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Wild Cherry

14 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
All along the hollow lane, wild cherry lets its petals fall, not like confetti, but flake by desultory flake discarded, their purpose served, as Spring bustles on whistling. Its focus…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Plot 107 Roucan Loch

13 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
When my time comes around/lay me gently in the cold dark earth/ no grave can hold my body down/ I’ll crawl home to earth” – Hozier – Work Song Lower…
Apaja'simk - To Return

On the Unceded Land of Abenaki

12 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
When I look at the fence I built, four-feet tall, as the dogs romp, I worry about after, when we are gone. What care embraces land? The turkeys and the…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Lake Erie sunset welcoming us home

11 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Photograph by Stuart Terman Nice to travel but happier to find our way home to this July/sunset over Lake Erie, as a surprise welcome. I thought this picture--taken as the…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Tiger Lily

10 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Garden escapees—thanks to birds, insects, wind, and human hands, They settle in the wild and breed, whether intentionally or not. I have never been one to like the taming of…
Nature

Naidra’s Pollinator Sight: The Secret of Pollinator Ultraviolet Vision

10 Feb 20228 Feb 2022
A new publication from Tiny Seed Poet Gregory Kanhai. A fun, rhyming short story of how Naidra discovers that pollinators see flowers in ultraviolet - ultra-V! It emphasizes reading, research,…
Apaja'simk - To Return

The Piano Dreamed

9 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Poem by Anita Sullivan I'm a poet living among the magnificent trees of the Pacific Northwest. I've published both essay and poetry collections, am a founding member of the poetry…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Returning Home in Fog

8 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Poem by Adele Beebe Adele Beebe currently lives and creates in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, which provides so much inspiration for subject matter, color, texture, and…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Rain in the Forecast

7 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
The impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell Berry Rain in the Forecast Come on first autumn rainfall stun the leaves, knock free the dust soften the oak’s dry…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Returning Tide

6 Feb 20227 Feb 2022
The tide, coming in, pushes up neat clumps of seaweed, glistening green, like the “grass” dumped from an easter basket. Waves roll in with a gentle power, pushing the last…
Apaja'simk - To Return

The Return

5 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Silent for so long, the angel whispers again. Her message comes through birling basswood leaves: Dance! She points to ripples streaming to the lakeshore, reminds me all boundaries are sand…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Bloodroot

4 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
The bloodroot is blooming. Ivory clumps of guiltless blossoms shine among tumbled blocks of limestone. Halting my journey, I can’t keep my eyes from the old quarry walls that shelter…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Without Rain

3 Feb 20223 Feb 2022
Today the winds have them, violent and beautiful, La Danse Apache pulled and pushed from side to side purple spikes bend twist, pitch, roll. Emerald branches reach out like spurned…
Nature

3 Year Anniversary for Tiny Seed Journal

2 Feb 202231 Jan 2022
3 years ago today, Tiny Seed Journal was started...  a seed was planted, a tiny dream was given wings... with a vision to create an online journal for lovers of…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Fuss About Finches

1 Feb 202226 Jan 2022
Growing up an “army brat”, Reena Kapoor lived all over India and feels lucky for having had that wandering life. Reena has been muddling with poetry for over a decade.…
Apaja'simk - To Return

All Swim Free

31 Jan 202226 Jan 2022
In that narrow strip between the road and the woods, we are searching for the hidden entrance, marked by a concrete pylon and a dirt footpath. It’s tucked in among…
Apaja'simk - To Return

The Prodigal Arm

30 Jan 202226 Jan 2022
I cut off my arm. Numb from shoulder to hand, it didn't hurt. I used a coping saw to stop it wandering and in the garden I burnt the only…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Standing Dead

29 Jan 202226 Jan 2022
Poem by Girard Tournesol I've had a largely private poetry practice for 45 years publishing under pen name Girard Tournesol. I've published two books of poetry. My work has appeared…
Apaja'simk - To Return

A Murmuration of Starlings

28 Jan 202226 Jan 2022
Skyfall over the meadow is its usual dusky, almost sullen blue, draping itself over the tops of the ancient trees that line the path to the sea. Your absence is…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Earth remembers us all

27 Jan 202226 Jan 2022
desolate regions between kindness arid soil of heartbreak howling winds of lies empty shadows of hunger hand upon the fist the fist in the face in the dark alleys of…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Male Gentoo Penguin: Preparation for Incubation

26 Jan 2022
What you need are pebbles— more—hard to find— on Antarctica Peninsula— and a spot for building your nest with expectant mate. You found the right smooth stone for wooing her…

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We are so excited for our friends @heidisanderwriter and @jamiemnix to launch their new collection of poetry!
Submissions open Mar 15, 2022
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Poem ‘You and I’ and drawing ‘Bumblebee’ by tiny seed journal’s featured poet Alicia Hayden, Rain before Rainbows 2020
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Featured Poet Alicia Hayden -
Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His next book, Becoming Little Shell, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2022. Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.
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