Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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mighty oak branch
mighty oak branch October 10, 1992 side-by-side we stare up the heft, the weight he flings the string saw third try over, I catch my end pull! he calls…
Aug 29 • 
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phone call
phone call 1988 we’re holding your son attempted theft of a video game can a heart drop? no breath to speak doesn’t my boy understand? his life is hard…
Aug 3 • 
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the walk
the walk June, 1976—PIC-U: pediatric intensive care unit he’s still alive, I thought shaking, one foot, then another toward the PICU door that’s all I…
Mar 25 • 
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supposed friends
supposed friends 1987 middle school they hung him upside down by his ankles over pavement threatened to smash his head shook his pockets free grabbed…
Mar 23 • 
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brute courage
1984, nine years old
Feb 25 • 
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