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Setting Aside
Setting Aside When I set aside worry let pain be both present and nameless sunlight spills brighter shadows gather my gaze as they shift with the air My…
6 hrs ago
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Joy is Coming
Joy Is Coming Around the corner dissolving clouds sunlight pools, catches my cheek Before thought undoes me my face turns toward warmth and feels…
Sep 28
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Return
Return So many rounds breaking apart coming together could be feelings or aging— similar weather messy, sloppy, painful The turn between unraveling and…
Sep 27
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Remembering to Be Grateful
Remembering to Be Grateful When it’s painful to walk and my spirits lag I turn to house finches dancing in the bath fussing at the feeder flittering…
Sep 26
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Warm Breath
Warm Breath The cycles obvious at equinox Prediction, not promise of eighties today A few more tomatoes may blush be plucked for mozzarella and basil…
Sep 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Fattening Squirrels
Fattening Squirrels Do they sense portending severe winter?
Sep 24
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The Turn
The Turn As bushes seek late-summer sun shadows cast on the slatted fence Last tomatoes ripening in the late seasonal heat caprese soon to end Geese…
Sep 23
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Fo-Ti
Fo-Ti Sure we’d lost her last winter, this medicinal Chinese plant a friend for seventeen years, in a pot cut back to a dead-looking shred We moved and…
Sep 22
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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New Noticing
New Noticing a tanka sequence (rensaku) Big change no—giant adjustment Now a cane I watch every step asphalt instead of sky Slender cracks where sturdy…
Sep 21
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My Father’s Spice
My Father’s Spice Signature arctic wiry hair, his pride among balding friends Carried a leather briefcase washed his Lincoln with care on weekends…
Sep 20
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Contagion
Contagion Kind words easing out may not be met yet I must stay with them compassion is needed I signal a lane change driver flips me the finger Young…
Sep 19
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The Poet’s Work
The Poet's Work Look for what you notice but no one else sees. —Rick Rubin Spider's thread catches a twig ant shoulders a load twice its size whir of…
Sep 18
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