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Category: Issue 12.1

Intro 12.1

tinywords is back! Issue 12.1 begins Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Enjoy. And thanks for reading.
Posted on 28 September 2012Author Peter NewtonCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 12.112 Comments on Intro 12.1
new coolness the blueberry bushes picked clean  
Posted on 1 October 20124 November 2012Author Cara HolmanCategories Issue 12.110 Comments on
afterthoughts the cricket’s voice in deep leaves
Posted on 2 October 201229 September 2012Author Ann K. SchwaderCategories Issue 12.112 Comments on
news of your death when I open my eyes green leaves       (previously published in the May/ June 2012 Sketchbook, 3rd place in the SSH Summer Kigo contest)
Posted on 3 October 20121 October 2012Author Angie WerrenCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
jacarandas the bee still comes to the fallen  
Posted on 4 October 20121 October 2012Author Kath Abela WilsonCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
Friday afternoon butterfly rests on the wind
Posted on 5 October 20124 October 2012Author Ellen Grace OlingerCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
damselfly wings the slant of the sunlight between leaves
Posted on 8 October 201214 August 2020Author Alexander B. JoyCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
across his face the light that slowly moves across his field  
Posted on 9 October 20124 October 2012Author Bouwe BrouwerCategories Issue 12.1Tags haiku8 Comments on
milk moon the spring stampede to green pasture  
Posted on 10 October 20124 October 2012Author Susan MurataCategories Issue 12.15 Comments on
distant thunder ants inside a broken egg shell
Posted on 11 October 201211 October 2012Author Polona OblakCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
twilight trees birds go in and out of song
Posted on 12 October 201212 October 2012Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 12.111 Comments on
steam escaping from the rice cooker dreams of travel  
Posted on 15 October 20129 October 2012Author Sheila SondikCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
drinks on the beach the jiggle in a pelican’s throat
Posted on 16 October 20129 October 2012Author Lynne ReesCategories Issue 12.113 Comments on
dock sunset the silvery pinks of loose fish scales
Posted on 17 October 20129 October 2012Author Bill CooperCategories Issue 12.13 Comments on
the heavy worm twisting between my fingers sunlight on the hook  
Posted on 18 October 201218 October 2012Author John HawkheadCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
another sunset another gnat swims in the wine
Posted on 19 October 20129 October 2012Author Preston MartinCategories Issue 12.119 Comments on
dawn garden a spotted fawn nibbles at my resolve
Posted on 22 October 201222 October 2012Author Susan MurataCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
evening sun helping my dad tend the cosmos
Posted on 23 October 201223 October 2012Author Helen BuckinghamCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
batting cage nets catching only the dawn wind  
Posted on 24 October 201217 October 2012Author Chad Lee RobinsonCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
daydreaming on an old tire swing grief gives way  
Posted on 25 October 201219 October 2012Author Lucas StenslandCategories Issue 12.16 Comments on
out field grass THROUGH A FILM OF SOOT AND GREASE FACTORY WINDOWS (concrete poem)
Posted on 26 October 201228 October 2012Author Ed MarkowskiCategories Issue 12.1Tags baseball, concrete poetry, factories6 Comments on
homesick? the same ingredients tasting different  
Posted on 29 October 201225 October 2012Author Debbi AntebiCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
all that remains of this childhood dream white-washed bones and a feathered wing still flapping in the breeze  
Posted on 30 October 201225 October 2012Author Lauren MayhewCategories Issue 12.1Tags tanka9 Comments on
we needn’t talk — the night whispers tales long forgotten
Posted on 31 October 201218 October 2012Author Gabriele BrunschCategories Issue 12.1Tags haiga, haiku4 Comments on
owls hooting somewhere in the darkness I enter the last digit of her number  
Posted on 1 November 201230 October 2012Author John McManusCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
saying what i mean the windsock changes angle
Posted on 2 November 201230 October 2012Author Polona OblakCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
my favorite color doesn?t matter? cherry blossoms  
Posted on 5 November 20121 November 2012Author Seren FargoCategories Issue 12.13 Comments on
leaky roof we argue about politics  
Posted on 6 November 20124 November 2012Author Dick WhyteCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
lengthening shadows he talks to me about downsizing
Posted on 7 November 20124 November 2012Author Cara HolmanCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
tying my shoes lately the ground seems so low
Posted on 8 November 20124 November 2012Author Bob LuckyCategories Issue 12.16 Comments on
61st birthday– making the plum jelly a little sweeter
Posted on 9 November 20124 November 2012Author Marjorie BuettnerCategories Issue 12.112 Comments on
the stillness as the honor guard takes aim
Posted on 12 November 20128 November 2012Author Kelly BennettCategories Issue 12.19 Comments on
back from war the soldier cleans his room
Posted on 13 November 201210 November 2012Author Greg SchwartzCategories Issue 12.14 Comments on
antique ruby his grandmother’s dreams on my finger
Posted on 14 November 201210 November 2012Author Michelle SandersCategories Issue 12.15 Comments on
fireworks display the momentary glow on her face
Posted on 15 November 201210 November 2012Author tinywords librarianCategories Issue 12.111 Comments on
heat lightning the way your hand rests on mine
Posted on 16 November 20128 December 2012Author Margaret DornausCategories Issue 12.15 Comments on
tree climbing the smallest child the highest up
Posted on 19 November 20124 November 2012Author David CarusoCategories Issue 12.111 Comments on
deep sea fishing the boy’s bluster lost in the whitecaps
Posted on 20 November 201210 November 2012Author Bruce H. FeingoldCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
mitten drawer ? mending the holes left by her child  
Posted on 21 November 201210 November 2012Author Marion Alice PoirierCategories Issue 12.116 Comments on
job offer– champagne and fried fish on the table all the ingredients we need to start fresh
Posted on 22 November 201211 November 2012Author Margaret DornausCategories Issue 12.15 Comments on
going out of business an extra belly rub for half-priced Buddha
Posted on 23 November 201213 November 2012Author S.M. AbelesCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
magnifying glass an ant pauses to examine me
Posted on 26 November 201213 November 2012Author Robert Quiggle IIICategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
sunny day — telling time by my cat’s choice of window
Posted on 27 November 201213 November 2012Author Seren FargoCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
this slum with a moon in every puddle
Posted on 28 November 201213 November 2012Author martin gottlieb cohenCategories Issue 12.137 Comments on
The many notes of the falling rain, all in tune. (haiga)
Posted on 29 November 201224 November 2012Author Don WentworthCategories Issue 12.1Tags haiga, haiku, photograph, rain33 Comments on
under the half moon bridge this upside-down world
Posted on 30 November 201225 November 2012Author Kath Abela WilsonCategories Issue 12.16 Comments on
heat wave the blackened skins of roasting chilies  
Posted on 3 December 201225 November 2012Author Joan PrefontaineCategories Issue 12.112 Comments on
beating sun the butcherbird’s open throat  
Posted on 4 December 201225 November 2012Author Patricia ReidCategories Issue 12.15 Comments on
young coconut beside a wet machete her breath
Posted on 5 December 201225 November 2012Author Scott TerrillCategories Issue 12.18 Comments on
magpie on the barbed wire fence he swears he’ll change
Posted on 6 December 201226 November 2012Author Gregory LongeneckerCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
queen-size bed sometimes I wonder where you go to
Posted on 7 December 201226 November 2012Author Lynne ReesCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
green field fallow field a scarecrow?s patchwork life
Posted on 10 December 20128 December 2012Author Lorin FordCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
laid off the snowman without a scarf
Posted on 11 December 20128 December 2012Author Dick WhyteCategories Issue 12.14 Comments on
sub-zero even the snow slows down
Posted on 12 December 20128 December 2012Author Ann K. SchwaderCategories Issue 12.17 Comments on
slate sky . . . deleting the dead from my Christmas list  
Posted on 13 December 201210 December 2012Author Hannah MahoneyCategories Issue 12.110 Comments on
not enough time to think things through — black ice
Posted on 14 December 201210 December 2012Author Susan ConstableCategories Issue 12.114 Comments on
Christmas Eve the strip club parking lot covered with snow       (originally published in Mayfly, Winter 2010)
Posted on 17 December 201210 December 2012Author Greg SchwartzCategories Issue 12.13 Comments on
New Year’s snowstorm I unwrap the calendar
Posted on 18 December 201210 December 2012Author Michael MorellCategories Issue 12.12 Comments on
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