Skip to content

tinywords

haiku & other small poems

  • About
  • Archives
  • Subscriptions

Author: Wally Swist

Wally Swist's books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), The Daodejing: A New Interpretation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015), Candling the Eggs (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2017), The Map of Eternity (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2018), and Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018). His poems and prose have appeared in The American Book Review, Anchor: Where Spirituality and Social Justice Meet, Appalachia, Arts: The Arts in Theological and Religious Studies, Commonweal, North American Review, and The Woven Tale Press.
February rain . . . yet still the sparrows playing beneath a parked car    
Posted on 2 January 201817 December 2017Author Wally SwistCategories Issue 17.22 Comments on
filling the field’s expanse with its slenderness . . . . tufted blue gamma grass  
Posted on 26 December 201818 December 2018Author Wally SwistCategories Issue 18.2Leave a comment on
he hawk flicks its tailatop the telephone pole–pelting winter rain
Posted on 5 August 202124 July 2021Author Wally SwistCategories Issue 21.11 Comment on
finding another way    new snow along the forked branches of the pine  
Posted on 14 June 202323 May 2023Author Wally SwistCategories Issue 23.11 Comment on
first cool September morning catbird wrenching its cry wrenching its cry
Posted on 10 August 202319 July 2023Author Wally SwistCategories Issue 23.14 Comments on
finding time on a broken parking meter . . . the autumn rain
Posted on 18 October 202327 September 2023Author Wally SwistCategories Issue 23.24 Comments on
Proudly powered by WordPress