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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Love Lost, and Renewed

April 25, 2013

Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …

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Love’s Duplicity

April 21, 2013

When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …

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The Geometry, and Geography, of Love

April 17, 2013

I wrote these poems while still quite young, and very much in love, and loving the way our bodies “meet and …

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Some Silly Little Love Poems, Unloosed at Last

April 14, 2013

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I will be releasing over the next week or so some poetry …

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Personification – Infusing “I” in “Other”

April 8, 2013

The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …

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La Gitana, Our Larger Self – Sea Saga, Part V

March 30, 2013

We named her “La Gitana,” Spanish for the gypsy, partly in tribute to our family’s Spanish heritage, partly because sea gypsies …

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Wheeling Away on the Isle of Pines

March 24, 2013

Certain poems I return again and again to tap into a state of mind that I was experiencing while writing …

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Sweet Satisfaction

March 17, 2013

There’s a sweet satisfaction in being recognized by your peers for something you love to do. I’ve been honored recently …

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March 14, 2013

Originally posted on Another Lovely Day:
(a letter of self-worth) Yes you, you who thinks you are not enough. You who tries…

Sated by Scent. A Quest

March 10, 2013

Lately I’ve become obsessed by scent.  Perfume, to be more precise.  I seldom wear it and know little of it, …

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Purpose of Blog

After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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