Captian's Log Musings by a Graveyard 21 Jul 202020 Jul 2020 I don't know what goes on in me. It is like a pain. It is at once a severe emptiness, a void, and yet it is a heavy weight, like…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Wilfulwuls 21 Jun 2020 They are deadly when they sing, and what sorrow will they bring, those wilfulwuls, within the night when they have you in their sight. Dashing through the ev’ning air, you…
Captian's Log Rambling Thoughts About My Face 29 Mar 2020 I have often given my blog over to meditations on the morose. I am no prophet, but one certainty I proclaim is death. It is the one inescapable fact. You…
Captian's Log Reflection: Mad World 10 Mar 2020 I saw myself reflected in a dark mirror; Upon the stage I stood and saw myself distantly. The lights were on me, and before me was darkness: I saw myself…
Top Ten Books Agonson’s Top 10: The Monk 15 Feb 2020 It has entered my mind to formulate a list of books which have been meaningful to me, both in the pleasure they offer and also in the effect they had.…
Captian's Log Poem: The Light to See 3 Feb 2020 They say you never really die but only go away. I thought of this and watched the sky while night moved on to day. You are a darkness, this I…
Captian's Log Poem: Again 15 Jan 2020 The melting, blue snow of a dying day, the aborted winter’s passing away the cascading rain falling down on me and the dark of night’s a swelling black sea All…
Captian's Log Poem: Cold but Brisk 21 Oct 2019 You’ll die one day, so don’t forget there’s but one life you live. Don’t hide away or you’ll regret the love you didn’t give. The pain will come—and pleasure too—…
Captian's Log When Dreamers Wake 23 Sep 2019 When dreamers break and get a job, a cocktail on their brains —the bug is fixed— they wake. They wake to find it fixed: What good are working brains? Without…
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