Captian's Log Horror in the Cave 5 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 The soft plunk-plunk woke me. The dribble had woven itself in and out of my dreams like a metronome. Before I could open my eyes, waves of nausea assaulted my…
Captian's Log 2023: Fourth of July 4 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 Happy Fourth of July. I've been thinking about RFK Jr.'s recent rise. Besides his vaccine opposition and criticism of "big pharma," positions for which I have sympathy, I find I'm…
Captian's Log Bat 3 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 The bat is circling in the air, a crisscrossing path free of care, a shadow in a darkening sky; in the night, the shadows fly.
Captian's Log Fevered Rambling 2 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 I'm fighting a fever, and I never know if I'm in my right mind. I know, for a brief moment, when I wake up, when clarity breaks through the haze,…
Captian's Log Disturbed Rest 1 Jul 202324 Jun 2023 "I keep waking up at night," I proclaim to my distracted roommates. "It's that—" I hold off the ready expletive, "—music." I glance around the small, busy kitchen, wondering if…
Captian's Log Limits of my Art 30 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 I sometimes wish I was a painter or sculptor, that I had learned how to make pictures, because sometimes I see images in my head so clearly, so viscerally, images…
Captian's Log Zombie Apocalypse Poem 29 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 What's in those faded eyes? Does any soul look out? Trapped in this human guise, does just a monster shout? Can anyone foretell or anyone foresee What hand shall strike…
Captian's Log Wicked Ears 28 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 A cozy coffin, a rainy day, a swinging corpse now half decayed, the gallows' gathered murder's caws, and in my grave, I stop and pause and listen to the evening's…
Captian's Log Death’s Serenade 27 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 The portrait rests unfinished on the easel, and while the painter dreams, death plays his song. The chords, arranged to lull, the tune, decrease will, enchant the portraitist to sleep…
Captian's Log I Love My Cat 26 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 I love my cat, her warmth and claws, I love her fur and little paws, I love her shining, emerald eyes, the way in which she lies, her never ending…
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