Issue 10.1 – tinywords

Words Words

tinywords resumes publication, with a painting by Natalie d’Arbeloff

butterfly — the way you leave and come back

spring is coming one door of the deli is open

Street vendors selling flowers for other men’s wives

Five minutes before the alarm — birdsong, birdsong.

day at the park picnic blankets blanketed with cherry blossoms

spring scent of nothing burning

first thaw pink petals in the elevator

sprouting grasses — deleting the contacts i never call

I pause to watch the moon riding the clouds the boy tugs my hand

walking barefoot in the mud a young woman carries the world on her head

Another weekend over, under a sky of stars I empty the car.

row houses wear tinfoiled windows blind to spring

green tractor plowing drags over black furrows a lace scarf of gulls

riverside wedding — the flower girl picks a dandelion

low tide . . . river mud glistens pink in the setting sun

On a bed of leaves, a deer skeleton picked clean, save one furry hoof.

covered with blossoms a business card floats on the pond

in between the notes heartbeats so loud

snatched by the wind, my check zips past the daffodils — I almost let it go

in an old car an old man and an old dog

remission — in the rear-view the crow settles back on the roadkill

the hem of my dress too wet for the wind

the lie i almost tell bruised ginger

stars clearly aware

The way I rake the desert :: that would be my poverty

Clouds building outside Heralding a thunderstorm My cube grows smaller

the wind howling horizon on a wave

Sunreal

Hidden by the fog, mockingbirds and wrens sing maps outlining the trees.

morning coffee one bare foot under another

empty tree– except one nest

almost there would be a gas station

summer T-ball — between batters outfielders chase butterflies

sunday line of parking meters all expired [haiga: click URL to see image]

Issue 10.1 Now Available in Print

Issue 10.1 is now complete, and I’m pleased to be able to offer it as a printed book. This is something I’ve wanted to do with tinywords for a long time. There