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Hello tinywords community! A reminder that our reading window closes in a week, on Aug. 31. Submit your tiny poetry here: tinywords.com/?p=41278 tinywords.com/?p=41278

tinywords will be on pause until the next issue begins at the end of September. In the meantime, check out our photo prompt: tinywords.com/?p=41278

I shake the sand out of my walking shoes - early autumn rain (Ori -Maeve O'Sullivan tinywords.com/?p=40705

feeling a chill the scarlet maple spills out of itself -Carol Raisfeld tinywords.com/?p=40970

chill in the air— leaves swirling by an election sign -Michael Dylan Welch tinywords.com/?p=40995

the odd angles of dissent bamboo grove (haiga) -Shloka Shankar tinywords.com/?p=41100

the talk of the town blue moon -Elmedin Kadric tinywords.com/?p=40673

ripping duct tape the sound of divorce -Barrie Levine tinywords.com/?p=40691

first snow some pills are hard to swallow -Joseph P Wechselberger tinywords.com/?p=40470

sharp-edged dune grass we argue against the wind -Jean LeBlanc tinywords.com/?p=40454

big dipper, little dipper I memorize your laugh lines -Elisa Theriana tinywords.com/?p=41254

my son learns what it means to be infinite first winter stars -Matthew Moffett tinywords.com/?p=40943

raven atop the towering snag -- a winter's tale -Sheila Sondik tinywords.com/?p=40932

no birds calling a shiver winds through the upper boughs -Antoinette Cheung tinywords.com/?p=41247

late winter the thump of a basketball up and down the street -Frank Hooven tinywords.com/?p=41244

keeping pace with summer double dutch -petro c.k. tinywords.com/?p=40624