Captian's Log A Postscript 3 Jul 2025 I was writing an e-mail, and an idea overtook me. My nom-de-plume? No mask I wear.Though it's a name I choose to bear,revealed to me within a dream—a fearful dream—I…
Captian's Log Unsad Waltzers 22 May 2025 Where are the dancers in the light? Why's gone the beauty from my sight?I loved the effervescent fay. Why must they die when ends the day? In dreams, I pray…
Captian's Log Ghosts in the Night 13 Mar 20258 Mar 2025 How sleep deserts me in my need. How I long to fall into the abyss of dreams and forgetfulness. Tomorrow, tomorrow I shall die, or tonight, or was it yesterday?…
Captian's Log Lost in the Hedgerows 12 Mar 202513 Mar 2025 I see them in my dreams. Every night, it's the same. I'm running through some sort of maze, old forgotten hedgerows and dying bramble on lifted beds of brickwork. They…
Captian's Log A New Morn 9 Mar 20257 Mar 2025 Here is the ending phantom, fading away as a new day begins. It was a pleasant dream to dream, comforting in its way, but now it ends. A shadow is…
Captian's Log The Mystery of Glass 8 Mar 20251 Mar 2025 Tired and worn out by inescapable dreams, wandering down streets without names through a city without light, and drawn, ever drawn, to take that next, unintelligible step forward. It is…
Captian's Log The Shanty 6 Mar 20251 Mar 2025 I feel the burden of my journey now, feel the years and miles like a weight upon my back pressing me, grinding me down, as the final stretch is in…
Captian's Log There is a Prison 1 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 “There is a prison,” I said. “Is it just?” he asked. “And he waits in darkness.” “But is it just?” “Long ago, I commended him to the guard.” “If he…
Captian's Log Morning and Night 31 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 In the cool of the night a voice, a whisper on the sands, and I heard melody in my dreams. The smoke of the fire rose and twisted in the…
Captian's Log What Dreams Avail the Dead 30 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 I hope the words we sang tonight while drifting down the riverside are heard again some other time, that other voices sing again the rhymes we threaded between the stars.…
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