disability

What Cannot Be Shared

What Cannot Be Shared We draw lines on a map call this side ours the other side yours taken so seriously a silly business land belongs to land We…

Aug 7 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Loss Again 2011 Motorcycle man’s real bad— hospital again, he said mucosal melanoma Phone is breaking up but Bird’s tone is clear his shoulders sound…

Jun 28 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Prediction 1978 Sultry Ohio late afternoon sun reflecting on the river’s curve cocktails on my parents’ patio gin and tonic for my folks Añejo rum on…

Jun 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Queen of Motorcycles

Queen of Motorcycles A burly BMW, flagship of the line A mother’s terror seeing Bird decked out in leathers with a broad grin slide behind his friend…

Jun 25 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Wanting and Not

Jun 23 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Missing Parts They call to me I hear them still Flesh grieves Expendable the surgeon said To whom? I wonder Fifty-two years without ovaries and their…

Jun 15 • Amrita Skye Blaine

(the only picture that I have of the boys together)

Jun 5 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Lopsided Friends

Lopsided Friends 1989 Limping down the street Bird, tall, bending to listen studied concentration arm wandering behind Jay, smaller by a foot— twisted…

Jun 4 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Unbroken eleven years old Wandering arm, twisted spine and turned-in leg stumbling He falls, landing hard picks himself up one expects complaint None…

May 17 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Radioactive Pile

Radioactive Pile I tiptoe inside Clean and dirty clothes mixed with books, school supplies, parts of models, comics old food congealed in the middle of…

Dec 20, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

May 7th, 1989 In a wooden yurt, open to Sonoma spring thirty-three people hold hands and sing, a blessing to honor our union A strangled sound…

Dec 12, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Shoulder-Length Curls

Shoulder-Length Curls 1989 His head of dark, dense ringlets a metal glint here and there Paperclips. His body, tense coiled rattlesnake waiting Wrong…

Dec 10, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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