Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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Diana at my side
Diana at my side fifty-one years ago standing, arms crossed in front of the steel hospital crib I breathe in Diana forest towering behind stag by my…
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here
here Wherever you have friends, that’s your country; wherever you receive love, that’s your home.
Oct 18 • 
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conduit
conduit Your suffering is your bridge —James Baldwin shied from Buddhism young me, too stern if I had only understood quailing from truth doesn’t shield…
Oct 17 • 
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earthsong
earthsong she hums our home our round blue orb hurtling they’ve recorded her ultra-low thrum does she lament our undoing a song of what’s lost, or bow…
Oct 16 • 
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settled it
settled it I have settled it for myself.
Oct 15 • 
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greeting
greeting I welcome Thee— Quaker plain speech bearing witness faithful to the sacred other seen
Oct 14 • 
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hidden
Image by Indra Kapur.
Oct 13 • 
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they're back
they’re back their companion call cuhoo cuhoo I’m here I’m here are you? why did they go? and where so long die-off? not here no not yet owl kin my…
Oct 12 • 
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new cervical pillow
Donama, the maker of this memory-foam cervical pillow, gave me permission to use this photograph from their website.new cervical pillow an airplane…
Oct 11 • 
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allostatic load
allostatic load snowballing anxiety and stress imagine, a phrase for this how well do we bear it? one person at a time revealing the weight outrage’s…
Oct 10 • 
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spinal epidural
spinal epidural sentinel for two choices unrelenting pain or invasive intervention I call in Diana her unwavering tone Valium she brooks no opposition…
Oct 9 • 
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standing in one place
standing in one place a fallen Sequoia breadth taller than me trunk cut clean its rings over a thousand years what its life has spanned rise of the…
Oct 8 • 
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