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This Sea Within, A Poem & Excerpt From My Novel

August 10, 2026

I wrote this poem while writing my novel This Sea Within about love and war in Central America. I wrote …

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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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