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Category: Issue 20.1

tinywords begins its 20th year!

Now that’s a headline worth celebrating. Here we are, nearly twenty years after Dylan Tweney started publishing tiny poems, one per day, like a daily vitamin
Posted on 30 March 20202 April 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 20.112 Comments on tinywords begins its 20th year!
spring’s return a tossed coin tumbling in air
Posted on 31 March 202030 March 2020Author Thom NorgangCategories Issue 20.112 Comments on
April Fool’s Day the cuckoo switches eggs  
Posted on 1 April 202030 March 2020Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 20.113 Comments on
tulip magnolia– the full-throated song of a meadowlark  
Posted on 2 April 202030 March 2020Author Patricia J. MachmillerCategories Issue 20.18 Comments on
varied thrush between notes the unwavering light  
Posted on 3 April 202030 March 2020Author Jeff HoaglandCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
almost spring swinging my cane to a new beat  
Posted on 6 April 20205 April 2020Author Adelaide B. ShawCategories Issue 20.111 Comments on
eight minutes from the sun unfurling ferns
Posted on 7 April 20206 April 2020Author Simon HansonCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
expanding universe I teach my uncle how to read  
Posted on 8 April 20206 April 2020Author John McManusCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
creases in a map an old man at the trailhead squints back sunlight  
Posted on 9 April 20206 April 2020Author Robert WitmerCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
the one who went first waiting for me labyrinth’s center
Posted on 10 April 20206 April 2020Author Julie SchwerinCategories Issue 20.114 Comments on
without a way to find you mourning dove  
Posted on 13 April 202011 April 2020Author Angie WerrenCategories Issue 20.110 Comments on
self storage the bits we keep to ourselves (haiga)
Posted on 14 April 202012 April 2020Author Jane WilliamsCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
mesa clouds we mind each step among the pottery shards  
Posted on 15 April 202011 April 2020Author Frank HoovenCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
the longest I’ve ever lived in one place… lichen on maples
Posted on 16 April 202011 April 2020Author Brad BennettCategories Issue 20.18 Comments on
spring migration the return of vinyl records
Posted on 17 April 202011 April 2020Author Meik Bl?ttenbergerCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
every plastic ever made in existence
Posted on 20 April 202018 April 2020Author Jeffrey FerraraCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
downstream slightly faster than the debris
Posted on 21 April 202018 April 2020Author Jim KacianCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
earth day leaving the river alone with its thoughts  
Posted on 22 April 202018 April 2020Author Kristen LindquistCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
climate strike making her own sign like a kid again  
Posted on 23 April 202018 April 2020Author Dave BontaCategories Issue 20.12 Comments on
breaching the levee river town flooded with moonlight
Posted on 24 April 202018 April 2020Author David GrossCategories Issue 20.110 Comments on
where willows weave shadows the receding river
Posted on 27 April 202024 April 2020Author Padma ThampattyCategories Issue 20.118 Comments on
climate change the slippery slope of a glacier
Posted on 28 April 202024 April 2020Author Gregory LongeneckerCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
steel band the oil drums that drive us
Posted on 29 April 202024 April 2020Author Dave BontaCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
city park the accordionist pleats the breeze  
Posted on 30 April 202024 April 2020Author SanjuktaaCategories Issue 20.110 Comments on
Manhattan evening three fingers of sunset  
Posted on 2 May 2020Author Jennifer HambrickCategories Issue 20.122 Comments on
spring gusts … a swirl of dead leaves in the dugout  
Posted on 4 May 202024 April 2020Author Anna Eklund-CheongCategories Issue 20.110 Comments on
express take-out all the way home nothing but red lights
Posted on 5 May 202024 April 2020Author Lesley Anne SwansonCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
small-town diner she tells us we can take any seat we like  
Posted on 6 May 202024 April 2020Author Jennifer BurdCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
milk moon she tells more than he wants to know  
Posted on 7 May 202024 April 2020Author Beverly Acuff MomoiCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
her bony back against my palm — Mother’s Day             (First published in evolution, the Red Moon anthology, 2010)
Posted on 8 May 202024 April 2020Author Maeve O'SullivanCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
waning moon arranging flowers in her mother’s hands
Posted on 11 May 20209 May 2020Author Jean LeBlancCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
my daughter can’t read cursive imagine my sorrow my notes in her baby book are gibberish to her         (From A Thousand Voices, Tanka Society
Posted on 12 May 20209 May 2020Author Sally BiggarCategories Issue 20.11 Comment on
what we take and what we leave behind honey harvest  
Posted on 13 May 20209 May 2020Author Dyana BasistCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
A short haibun by Tia Haynes
Posted on 14 May 20209 May 2020Author Tia HaynesCategories Issue 20.18 Comments on
fairy lights on a sapling… her prom dress
Posted on 15 May 20209 May 2020Author Roland PackerCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
struggling with the new curriculum weekly shooter drill  
Posted on 18 May 202018 May 2020Author Noel SlobodaCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
short day this cold shell of a bullet  
Posted on 19 May 202018 May 2020Author Elmedin KadricCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
spring vineyard stone farmhouse pockmarked with mortar shells
Posted on 20 May 202018 May 2020Author Bruce H. FeingoldCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
returning to the vanishing point in the blue hour five lonely notes of a mourning dove  
Posted on 21 May 202018 May 2020Author Don MillerCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
mossy log a ruffled grouse drums up the dawn (haiga)
Posted on 22 May 202012 April 2020Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga7 Comments on
lilacs filling the house with memories
Posted on 25 May 202018 May 2020Author M. Shane PruettCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
mayfly the eulogy writes itself
Posted on 26 May 202025 May 2020Author Edward HuddlestonCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
day moon bees orbit the buttonbush  
Posted on 27 May 202025 May 2020Author Rich SchillingCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
first sprouts a crow cleans its feathers on the scarecrow’s shoulder  
Posted on 28 May 202025 May 2020Author Nickolay GrankinCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
spring planting– a runner of ivy in the dog’s teeth  
Posted on 29 May 202025 May 2020Author Julie Bloss KelseyCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
cluster of barrel cactus morning glow  
Posted on 1 June 202025 May 2020Author Deborah P KolodjiCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
cloud cover . . . plum blossoms reach out to the sky
Posted on 2 June 20201 June 2020Author Margaret DornausCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
blossom rain . . . a toadstool turns inside out
Posted on 3 June 20201 June 2020Author Julie SchwerinCategories Issue 20.11 Comment on
noon sunlight in the shower’s rhythm white chrysanthemum       (Originally published in The Mainichi Haiku in English November 4, 2014)
Posted on 4 June 20201 June 2020Author martin gottlieb cohenCategories Issue 20.11 Comment on
A short haibun by Larry Kimmel: “Irises”
Posted on 5 June 20201 June 2020Author Larry KimmelCategories Issue 20.115 Comments on
cooling tea all I believed I'd do today
Posted on 8 June 20208 June 2020Author Alexander B. JoyCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
sunrise waiting for a cormorant to surface  
Posted on 9 June 20208 June 2020Author Bob LuckyCategories Issue 20.19 Comments on
break in the rain a flock of lorikeets loud in the blossoming plum  
Posted on 10 June 20208 June 2020Author Vanessa ProctorCategories Issue 20.11 Comment on
muting the commercial mourning dove  
Posted on 11 June 20208 June 2020Author Tom BierovicCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
friday night no one calls but the geese  
Posted on 12 June 20208 June 2020Author Nicholas MathisenCategories Issue 20.11 Comment on
old letters in a shoebox winter sunlight hanging on
Posted on 15 June 202014 June 2020Author Roger JonesCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
winter sun . . . the wren’s vocal warm-up
Posted on 16 June 202015 June 2020Author Marie Louise MunroCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
millions of songs I will never hear first snow fall    
Posted on 17 June 202015 June 2020Author Dan BodahCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
path of nettles the sting from an old memory  
Posted on 18 June 202015 June 2020Author Sam BatemanCategories Issue 20.12 Comments on
first date sushi the artfully balanced slices of our narratives  
Posted on 19 June 202015 June 2020Author Maria BonsantiCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
the longest night feeling nostalgic for radio static
Posted on 22 June 202019 June 2020Author Dan BodahCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
winter rain watering the flowers on her umbrella  
Posted on 23 June 202022 June 2020Author Philip WhitleyCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
tall bamboo bows to the pruners late snow
Posted on 24 June 202022 June 2020Author Sheila SondikCategories Issue 20.12 Comments on
hard times the bird bath freezes over before sundown  
Posted on 25 June 202022 June 2020Author Alexa SelphCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
3am Tao I try to sleep without trying  
Posted on 26 June 202022 June 2020Author Kat LehmannCategories Issue 20.111 Comments on
light studded hillside the miles of night till the next town  
Posted on 29 June 202028 June 2020Author Michelle SchaeferCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
mountain hollow a sway in the back of the old draft horse  
Posted on 30 June 202028 June 2020Author Alan S. BridgesCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
Amish country the precision of a cracked whip
Posted on 1 July 202028 June 2020Author Bryan RickertCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
lopsided moon I consider both sides of the argument
Posted on 2 July 202028 June 2020Author Susan ConstableCategories Issue 20.119 Comments on
baseball game for three hours we all belong to the same party
Posted on 3 July 202028 June 2020Author Alexa SelphCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
a crack in the concrete box prisoner’s sky
Posted on 6 July 20206 July 2020Author Rashmi VesaCategories Issue 20.112 Comments on
thunderclap — the darkening sky splits into liquid night         (Originally published in beyond the horizon beyond)
Posted on 7 July 20206 July 2020Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 20.118 Comments on
more than enough to fill an afternoon summer cumulus
Posted on 8 July 20206 July 2020Author Sam BatemanCategories Issue 20.18 Comments on
the cornfield closes behind us summer dusk
Posted on 9 July 20206 July 2020Author John HawkCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
living will the kids know all I need in the end sunlight on my face and ice cream every day (haiga)
Posted on 10 July 202012 April 2020Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
X marks the crosshairs radiotherapy
Posted on 13 July 202012 July 2020Author Maxianne BergerCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
last of autumn a prescription bottle filled with sepia  
Posted on 14 July 202012 July 2020Author Ron ScullyCategories Issue 20.12 Comments on
he tells me he’s forced to retire falling-leaf moon    
Posted on 15 July 202012 July 2020Author j. zimmermanCategories Issue 20.12 Comments on
retirement benefits I pick up sand dollars
Posted on 16 July 202012 July 2020Author S. M. KozubekCategories Issue 20.19 Comments on
beach umbrella all day the orbit of its shadow (haiga)
Posted on 17 July 20202 October 2020Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
seafront clairvoyant her cypress leaf charm brushes my palm       (Originally appeared in Presence 58, 2017)  
Posted on 20 July 202012 July 2020Author Helen BuckinghamCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
the moon’s pull shaping the curve inside the wave
Posted on 21 July 202012 July 2020Author Anton FloydCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
telling me over and over the undertow  
Posted on 22 July 202012 July 2020Author Lorin FordCategories Issue 20.110 Comments on
afterglow… the tingle of sunburn
Posted on 23 July 202012 July 2020Author Christopher PatchelCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
dawn your body?s outline follow?s mine (haiga)
Posted on 24 July 202024 July 2020Author Tanya DikovaCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
that look in our eyes . . . candle moths
Posted on 27 July 202012 July 2020Author Ed MarkowskiCategories Issue 20.13 Comments on
honey-cool melon tasting of a hundred hives
Posted on 28 July 202024 July 2020Author Lesley Anne SwansonCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
dining on the lake water striders
Posted on 29 July 202024 July 2020Author Jeff HoaglandCategories Issue 20.15 Comments on
Indian summer corn-on-the-cob-shaped corn-on-the-cob holders  
Posted on 30 July 202024 July 2020Author Mary StevensCategories Issue 20.110 Comments on
summer eve stuck in my teeth a wild blackberry seed
Posted on 31 July 202024 July 2020Author Michael KetchekCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
keeping their secret bitterns become reeds
Posted on 3 August 202024 July 2020Author David GrossCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
deep summer moon so smooth this skipping stone
Posted on 4 August 202024 July 2020Author Ben GaaCategories Issue 20.17 Comments on
controlled burns in the pine forest the fine line between pique and fury  
Posted on 5 August 202024 July 2020Author Joan PrefontaineCategories Issue 20.14 Comments on
old growth forest the feeling of being watched
Posted on 6 August 202024 July 2020Author Bob RedmondCategories Issue 20.113 Comments on
a tree tagged for clearing summer’s end
Posted on 7 August 202024 July 2020Author Bryan RickertCategories Issue 20.113 Comments on
my jar of old keys forgotten passwords  
Posted on 10 August 202024 July 2020Author Dan CurtisCategories Issue 20.19 Comments on
art class notes the margin doodles improve by the week
Posted on 11 August 202011 August 2020Author Alexander B. JoyCategories Issue 20.12 Comments on
someone’s name in chalk at the end of summer  
Posted on 12 August 202024 July 2020Author Matthew MoffettCategories Issue 20.16 Comments on
in the space left by twilight crickets
Posted on 13 August 202024 July 2020Author Ann K. SchwaderCategories Issue 20.19 Comments on
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