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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…

12 hrs ago • 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

Blue Honda CRX 1988 His snappy little car turns into our drive Bird’s 14-year-old eyes so big boredom forgotten Our lives collided three weeks ago This…

Dec 8, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Mainstreamed 1981 First grade white boards, no chalk back-to-school night no walkers or wheel chairs Thirty students, not ten My first time meeting…

Dec 7, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

The Back Room of Memory

The Back Room of Memory with a nod to George Bilgere for the title You pushed your way out five weeks early, fast labor I wasn’t ready Hadn’t met your…

Dec 6, 2025 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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