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for Rosemary
For Rosemary The open palm of something true —Carrie Newcomer Take my hand, we belong together me, old you, older almost a generation We come from…
Nov 24
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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on turning eighty
on turning eighty I’m careening toward an unknown end dawn rolls into evening loops into daybreak again time is not fixed it stretches and shrinks…
Nov 20
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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salt tastes just the same
salt tastes just the same hot day weeding the garden, sweat pouring or weeping, lifelong friend gone the cut deep— salt, the same immediate sharp clean
Nov 18
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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grief in old age
grief in old age a feathered thing beats its wings— I hear it fly in, come to rest sometimes it brings tears other times wistfulness or melancholy stays…
Nov 13
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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slower wind
slower wind no rushing every task is that true? I give it longer walk, more care each moment attend to the heart dearly held so fleeting
Sep 4
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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accommodation
accommodation old age at every turn let go then that trim the sails for slower wind
Sep 3
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the dancer
(an ekphrastic poem, written to the photo below)
Jul 7
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Mahashmashana, (महाश्मशान (Mahāśmaśāna)
sanskrit—the great cremation ground, Varanasi, India
Jun 16
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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trifocals
trifocals thirty years ago, I craned my neck at the grocery store neither bifocal helped too far, too close complained to my eye guy you’re the perfect…
May 24
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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energy conservation
energy conservation death, yes, the body not the full truth passing away, English speakers’ euphemism— supposedly softer in Thich Nhat Hanh’s community…
May 13
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the privilege
the privilege it’s easy to lament— stiffness, aching, less energy, slower mind but the privilege of growing old outweighs decline I choose that view…
Mar 3
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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compensations
compensations growing old, sleep evades— the seeming hush of night but in bed attending, all is not quiet owls call back and forth, a rustle…
Feb 27
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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