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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Franz Wright: Like Touching a Bird’s Exposed Heart

March 11, 2021

Reading this poem on Vale of Soul-Making struck me to the core, it is so exquisite. That mingling of the …

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Neruda: Drunk With the Great Starry Void

March 8, 2021

One of my favorite poets, again, swept me off my feet, expressing the inexpressible with perfect eloquence. Poetry And it …

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Will Salmon Swim Upstream Through City Streets?

February 7, 2021

Once Upon a Time, A Poem In an eon, will Trumpism portend another Troy, a Trojan horse whose armies eviscerated …

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Strange Dreams, A Poem

February 4, 2021

Strange Dreams You stood there heating your backside by the fireplace, I sat in bed telling you how real my …

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Still Open to the Beauty of the World

February 1, 2021

“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this …

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A Young Poet and Rapper Throw Light on the State of Our Union

January 24, 2021

“A Return to Joy!” That’s what I was going to blog about today after watching the horror of the January …

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Joy Amid the Turmoil: A 2020 Recap

December 28, 2020

The year 2020 may have been the most turbulent year any of us have ever known. Blogging in such a …

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True Ghost Stories: Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 26, 2020

Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …

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The Personal & Political, Past & Present

October 18, 2020

Years ago, in what seems like another life time, I wrote a political column called “Taking Care of Labor” in …

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“More to Me Than Time Allows to Be”

October 4, 2020

I wrote this years ago, a kind of declaration for a state of being with which I passionately identified, although …

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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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