Archive - Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Lost It Slept through the night missed my window so I work now, when the world is revving At least it’s Sunday, a measure of quiet sleepyheads trudging…

13 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine

Pre-Dawn Dog woke me at five standing nearby peeping to go out Early morning slog find glasses, shoes, coat it’s chilly out there Leash means business…

Apr 17 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Windfresh Whipping in the chill sunshine stiff and windfresh, the sheets are hard to catch I’m too short to reach the pins, but help Anna find the…

Apr 16 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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

Apr 15 • 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

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