Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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Falling Asleep
Poetic form: gogyoshi. Lyrica, a nerve medication, my dose upped much higher.
5 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine
taking pain medication exactly as prescribed
repeated drawing, sorry.
Aug 12 • Amrita Skye Blaine
the over-eighty rat race
This poem is a new form to me, a Gogyoshi. It is a modern Japanese form, with a title and exactly five free-verse lines. No rhyme schemes, line-length…
Aug 11 • Amrita Skye Blaine
knowing other poets
knowing other poets like sighthounds are to other dogs— wholly different, aware, intuitive so poets are to other people noticing detail hearts more…
Aug 10 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Dog in a Cone
Dog in a Cone Leggy, her long, lean body, patrician nose, knowing dark eyes that anchor into mine When, for her well-being we slip on the cone affix it…
Aug 9 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Paradox
Paradox We’re made local for a time, each of us a point on this sphere of billions and growing No number’s large enough to count all manifest things a…
Aug 8 • Amrita Skye Blaine
What Cannot Be Shared
What Cannot Be Shared We draw lines on a map call this side ours the other side yours taken so seriously a silly business land belongs to land We…
Aug 7 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Feverish
Feverish Sick, home in bed had a feverish dream— Our teacher assigned daydreaming our most important task She said not knowing is fine, not to feel bad…
Aug 6 • Amrita Skye Blaine
The Great Teacher
The Great Teacher Implacable.
Aug 5 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Update
Dear friends, subscribers, readers—
Aug 4 • Amrita Skye Blaine
What Makes Us Who We Are
What Makes Us Who We Are Scarred, broken, twisted our wounds the cleft-lip scar Cesarean slash entrance, exit wounds the unseen heartbreak rift and…
Aug 4 • Amrita Skye Blaine
He doesn't tell me
He doesn’t tell me disappears into the bathroom stays ten minutes no toilet sound flushing comes out with a small brown paper bag—rolled tight at the…
Aug 3 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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