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Look
Look We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
8 hrs ago
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Catch and...
Catch and… Her long, curious nose pointing at the floor my sighthound Reading her I peer, too A delicate gecko aware of the looming goes still With a…
Apr 29
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Just Before Green
The poems for the next thirty days are written from prompts from Ellen Rowland's class. You can find her on Substack.
Apr 24
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Caravan of Poets
Caravan of Poets When I rise in the dark rubbing my eyes, trundle to my computer slip on my heated vest I sense you, too awake in night’s deep, settling…
Apr 23
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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no small thing
no small thing It’s no small thing, love— warmth of a hug holding another’s gaze that clearing meeting them here now in this, the only moment we have…
Apr 21
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Hedge Witch
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
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Rarity
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
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Inside
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
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the clock
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
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What now?
What now?
Apr 9
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Gravity
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
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Dusking
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
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