current

Another Day showing at the skyline slate dawn, somber world shading me gray A mistaken glance at the headlines torn between need-to-know and…

Dec 9 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Autocrazy Autocracy

Autocrazy Autocracy with a nod to Peter Levitt Look around.

Nov 22 • Amrita Skye Blaine

not yet the end of the story

not yet the end of the story left arm aching like heartbreak weight pulsing, jangling begging to be the center of everything I dread reaching but it’s…

Nov 12 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Funkadelic Fantasy Gala

Funkadelic Fantasy Gala Fund-raiser—1970s on display $135 a plate, we’re invited for free batik, bell bottoms, wigs everywhere bald men sporting blond…

Nov 8 • Amrita Skye Blaine

sleeves Cherishing is love with its sleeves rolled up. —Father Greg Boyle not on the sidelines avoiding knuckle into that hard knot there is no their…

Oct 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Gaza bony, big-bellied, flies sipping their tears toddlers suck their mothers dry they whimper at tight belly and thirst the infant stuffs dusty fingers…

Oct 23 • Amrita Skye Blaine

they’re back their companion call cuhoo cuhoo I’m here I’m here are you? why did they go? and where so long die-off? not here no not yet owl kin my…

Oct 12 • Amrita Skye Blaine

new cervical pillow

Donama, the maker of this memory-foam cervical pillow, gave me permission to use this photograph from their website.new cervical pillow an airplane…

Oct 11 • Amrita Skye Blaine

spinal epidural

spinal epidural sentinel for two choices unrelenting pain or invasive intervention I call in Diana her unwavering tone Valium she brooks no opposition…

Oct 9 • Amrita Skye Blaine

candle communion

candle communion its presence a friendly glow companion in the night no open fire, not here— each year hamlets devoured rechargeable has to do so clever…

Oct 2 • Amrita Skye Blaine

wipes the mind what pain does emptying clarifying I didn’t say easy a heron on the hunt large feet in the muck everything attention drugs, another…

Sep 20 • Amrita Skye Blaine

trigger points she fingers them in the back scanning for sore knots here?

Sep 19 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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