Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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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?
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Tanka
Tanka his touch a moth wing kiss grazes my lips now faintest mist gone, never to return
 • 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…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Keepsake
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…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
hidden
Image by Indra Kapur.
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
now and then
now and then how fast the day— poof!
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
obsession with horses
photo from the Barnstorming blog: https://barnstorming.blog/ with permission of my friend Emily Gibson.obsession with horses whacked kicked thrown…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
that moment
that moment spring vacation home from college drove to my local park filled with leafing trees looking for hope pulled over, stunned— my father’s…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Liederkranz cheese
Liederkranz cheese ten years old I can smell it across the room— my dad spreads the goop on a cracker, says try it his impish smile he’s playful but…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
window screen
window screen nine years old nose pressed metal mesh bouquet as moisture mixes watching the storm roll up the valley counting klicks between claps…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
gathering storm
gathering storm 1954 how clouds thicken and pile wind rises, swirls the ions, a certain warning scent distant rumbling closer first crack overhead…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
what I missed
what I missed 1962 the kind one a small-town boy, gazing with care and desire who honored my edges oh, those soft lips Mom, not supportive his dad’s…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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