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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: climate change

Poetry to Save a Planet in Peril

July 19, 2026

With all the wildfires, floods, and extreme heat waves going on, it seems the climate catastrophe we heard was coming …

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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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Wildfires Everywhere, Literally and Politically

August 22, 2020

That unusual thunderstorm I wrote about last week brought more than 1200 lightening strikes that forked across California causing 560 …

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  • The Weight of Snow and Regret & Bo Hopkins’ Blues
  • Poetry to Save a Planet in Peril
  • Unexpected Pleasures: Three New Reviews of When Things Go Missing
  • The Primordial Pleasure of Swimming
  • Two Poems about Love & Coming Home
  • It’s a Wrap! This Sea Within Book Tour Comes to a Thrilling Conclusion
  • Release Day for This Sea Within: Spilling So Many Emotions
  • Transformational Journeys, Missing Mothers, Romance & Art! What Links My Novels

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  • The Art of Living, a Reminder
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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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