Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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Tanka from Ellen Rowland’s class
Tanka from Ellen Rowland's class (Tanka—an ancient Japanese form in five lines) lingering gaze liquid fire on my skin my rising heartbeat sixty-three…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
sitting in the way of
sitting in the way of So much can grow in the gaps of things —James Crews That leap the no-mind gazelle carries me new Seeded in that gap a spore More…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
the book
the book You, becoming inside of me I feel foundation’s pulse, something birthing It wants its way yet allows deformation, the emerging form can be…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
the page
the page Beloved. Every day, you. Empty, insistent you made of light and white demanding the next true thing. Heartbeat of my nights and days Strict.
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
surely I was blessed to be there
surely I was blessed to be there 2006—Buckhorn Springs I found my genie there hiding out as I can’t not good enough and unworthy in this company like…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
for Fran on her 96th birthday
Fran Claggett-Holland sitting in her poetry roomfor Fran on her 96th birthday 2025 she never pushed— a casual come visit my dogs, bring along poems her…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
letterpress - snapshots
letterpress - snapshots a table of quiet conversation interspersed laughter passing through splashes of joy ideas leaping between minds one day…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
blank page
blank page every day, a white screen fingers feel their keyboard place the dot on F and J a quiet moment noting breath’s rhythm then—rereading…
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letterpress - connection
Amrita weaving on the dobby circa 1981letterpress - connection I finger the sorts of Gill Sans the font for this morning’s focus— the heaviness in my…
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why spare
why spare A certain kind of diction in poems serves to sharpen the blade of silence making us hear it more loudly, more accurately.
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
widdershins
widdershins southpaw, lefty sometimes cack-handed mollydooker, sinistral moon- or shadow-handed I push the pen no calligraphy for me I long for…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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…
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