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widdershins
widdershins southpaw, lefty sometimes cack-handed mollydooker, sinistral moon- or shadow-handed I push the pen no calligraphy for me I long for…
Sep 10
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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letterpress - first project
letterpress - first project consider which poem to print first it doesn’t matter but mind likes significance gift for a friend thirteen lines just…
Sep 9
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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early
early one a.m. come wide awake keyboard calls in the deeper quiet no water-heater rumble or muffled steps backdoor neighbor’s dog asleep the spill of…
Sep 7
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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letterpress guide
letterpress guide like willow restrained grace economy, both motion and speech kind in his eighth decade he shepherds creativity and magic the presses…
Sep 5
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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letterpress - the type
a case, showing one full alphabet of a particular font and sizeletterpress - the type lead smells soft, feels dense, yet chalky on the fingertips an…
Aug 31
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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manna
manna before light threads the sky, I wake, not to make— bear witness I slip into the soft seam where words wait— not mine to own, but cradle cupped…
Aug 28
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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letterpress - first day
my cheatsheet for letter layout in the caseLetterpress printing is how all printing was done over a hundred years ago: each letter, each space made of…
Aug 27
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the word well
the word well dropping in sinking down sometimes long the wait then a glimpse nab a few grainy, smooth, surprising at times an unlocked flow cast my…
Aug 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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ambition
I'm reading an amazing little book, "My Trade Is Mystery--Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing" by Carl Phillips.
Aug 21
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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ruckus
ruckus she’s stomping in the background fussing and fuming my muse doesn’t know what she wants something a starting a place for words to root she knows…
Jun 3
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the poem within
the poem within a phrase shows up maybe a title it won’t leave begs to root burrows then gestates often for weeks then comes the dive— not just down…
May 14
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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if we met face to face
a daydream...
Apr 20
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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