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Look We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

8 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine

Peace Prayer after Kevin Hart O come, this peace like a sun-bathing anole, heat-drowsed on the stony way because of relentless betrayal or come as a…

May 1 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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 • Amrita Skye Blaine

a poetic form created in 2003 by Eileen R. Tabios

Apr 28 • Amrita Skye Blaine

An ekphrastic poem based onAkira Kusaka's painting "Angling the Night"

Apr 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

"How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell" —Ram Dass

How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell —Ram Dass cluster bombs lobbed— democracy fractured 85 degrees, Sonoma County in March weeks, no rain obvious, this…

Apr 22 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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…

Apr 18 • 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

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

How the day turned on a refrigerator

How the day turned on a refrigerator Email, four poems accepted My elephant painting looks like a pachyderm— the day turns sunny even though its raining…

Apr 5 • Amrita Skye Blaine

April First and nothing about it is funny war in the Middle East, both insults and warheads hurled 170 innocent school girls murdered Likely our…

Apr 1 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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