Issue 10.1 – tinywords

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tinywords is pleased to resume publication and kick off issue 10.1 with cover art by Natalie d’Arbeloff.

A few notes about issue 10.1: It was edited by d. f. tweney,

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

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