childhood

Minnesota Winter

Minnesota Winter 1967 Deep into January motors chugging, parked in front of some homes 15 below, engine blocks would crack if not kept warm I walked to…

Mar 6 • Amrita Skye Blaine

The Rush 1953 Trailing behind my big brother, his boasting friends into the dark wood the edge of a deep ravine oaks sporting thick grape vines…

Mar 4 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Blindside eleven years old 8 AM, the smarting Mom, French-braiding my hair eyes watering from the pain, each time, I complained. She dragged me to her…

Feb 27 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Leave some time aside

Leave some time aside for doing what looks like nothing. As my eleven-year-old eyes rested on maple trees far side of the hockey field outside the…

Feb 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Gingersnaps 1953 The dough must chill before it can be rolled, a wearisome wait for a child paid off with a cookie-cutter galaxy of stars, crescents…

Feb 23 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Remembrance Stone

Remembrance Stone 1978 The stone is heavy, pitted So many secrets weighted you, your drinking most loaded Although your heart failed massive and sudden…

Feb 22 • Amrita Skye Blaine

You're Not a Blaine If You Don't Like Gravy

You’re Not a Blaine If You Don’t Like Gravy So I don’t belong. Puzzling and scary to my 3-foot-tall self Whose family do I belong to?

Feb 4 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Tanka his touch a moth wing kiss grazes my lips now faintest mist gone, never to return

Feb 3 • Amrita Skye Blaine

the beach, the wind

the beach, the wind and I’m hunched over trying to wipe a grain from my eye weeping, weeping its own good sense to wash out the offender can’t see, too…

Jan 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Keepsake I coveted it Like all the stars in the firmament, air bubbles in Mom’s lead-heavy paperweight Her everyday impatient cautions: Don’t drop it…

Jan 10 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Image by Indra Kapur.

Oct 13, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

now and then how fast the day— poof!

Oct 3, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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