Archive - Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Hedge Witch Brewing tinctures and salves savoring the scent ties me to sisters way back herbalists, wise women working as solitaries feared or respected…

13 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine

Rarity Myriad expressions 20 quadrillion ants microbes beyond count Humans—not so numerous yet far more hazardous arrogance may finish us This life, a…

Apr 14 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Inside Breeze on my face or lilt of a phrase that inviting trace curving just so carries me in— a light-filled place

Apr 13 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Creaky Waking up, a twinge of old age that ramshackle home loved and tended but wind-scoured beaten and wearing out still Writ this way the order of…

Apr 12 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Ekphrastic poem written to Akira Kusaka's painting, "Dawn Soup."

Apr 11 • Amrita Skye Blaine

the clock These hands are churches that worship the world —Naomi Shihab Nye These hands that pat, knead stroke, clasp pen and brush want to praise they…

Apr 10 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Apr 9 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Gravity The gutter catches what falls rain, leaves, bird droppings, bugs Life, in a nutshell Falling the moment we’re born into the midwife’s hands As…

Apr 8 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Dusking Sufis speak of the kamal point— neither inbreath nor outbreath the inner arrival of daybirth and nightfall, the inbetween outside of time an…

Apr 7 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Ars Pictoria Look away again Note what I didn’t see, shapes and values, highlights negative space What blend makes up that warm espresso? Relax my eyes…

Apr 6 • Amrita Skye Blaine

How the day turned on a refrigerator

How the day turned on a refrigerator Email, four poems accepted My elephant painting looks like a pachyderm— the day turns sunny even though its raining…

Apr 5 • Amrita Skye Blaine

the slog of living

the slog of living How to be alive?

Apr 4 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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