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.…
Captian's Log Sleeping Memories 3 Jan 202531 Dec 2024 "The nameless one," I said, "Does not remember his dreams. He thinks, though, that they are memories, or may be memories, of what he lost. That's why he likes to…
Captian's Log In the Dear Dark 23 Dec 2024 The tiger coils in the dark,his eyes are emerald flames.In lightless seas there swims the shark;his hunger no soul tames.The watchful owl waits in the night,no mercy in its glare.In…
Captian's Log Into a Darkness 16 Nov 2024 The dreams begin again, their soft, effervescent forms come and go like tendrils of fog never leaving a memory. I wait in the darkness, listening to the conversations I cannot…
Captian's Log Sparks 15 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 The king passed me in the night as the fuller's hammer kept a steady beat, like a heart or the ticking of a clock. He's out there now, making ready…
Captian's Log Sparks 14 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 You say the king is dead, but I say he walked by me in the night. Not in regalia but the softer hues of a faded smock. There, of that…
Captian's Log Sparks 13 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 The hammer fell, a steady rain of blows, making a music in the night, and by the fuller’s station I did rest, contemplating heaven's stars. The stable’s smell had wafted…
Captian's Log Beside a Waterfall 11 Nov 20249 Nov 2024 I sit beside a waterfall.Here many dreams and caverns call.Their darkness echoes with the roaras mighty waters downward pour.The caves, rebounding with the sound,my dreams the same know a strange…
Captian's Log Religious Debate 4 Nov 2024 I dreamed recently, and in the dream, I was going, somewhat surreptitiously, to an underground fellowship of Christians. Well, metaphorically, it was underground; I was in some sort of skyscraper,…
Captian's Log Haunted Cul-de-Sac 18 Oct 2024 Down a winding path I found a dead end. It seemed a nice little cul-de-sac, and the Halloween lawn decorations were tasteful, in the sense of not being gory. It…
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