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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Nature

Once Upon a Time in America, Two Poems

November 18, 2024

At a time when we are all striving toward some optimism because the future looks so dark, I almost hate …

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I Know Nothing But Miracles

October 28, 2024

Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle?As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether …

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The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette

August 12, 2024

It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …

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The Primordial Pleasure of Swimming

July 22, 2024

Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every afternoon. It’s not just …

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Personification & The Interplay Between I and Other

June 10, 2024

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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Listen to the Trees, a Sermon from Hermann Hesse

May 19, 2024

I came across the following essay about “preacher trees” from Hermann Hesse and thought I’d share it with you along …

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Birthing & Rebirthing, A Constant Becoming

May 12, 2024

When my granddaughter was born my heart fell apart and I became a new thing. We’re astounded again and again …

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Photos & Poetry to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22, 2024

From “The Shape of Fire” by Theodore Roethke To have the whole air!—The light, the full sunComing down on the …

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The Green Fuse that Drives the Flowers

April 7, 2024

The green fuse that Dylan Thomas wrote about in “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” is …

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Evolution Entwined with Love

March 18, 2024

I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …

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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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