Captian's Log Mark of Cain 7 Sep 20234 Sep 2023 "They killed him by that tree," he said, pointing. "Hung him up, but slowly. His hands were bound, but his toes could just touch the ground. They were laughing, shoving…
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 A Haunted Place 27 May 202325 May 2023 The mountain is a desolate place full of things that cannot die. Sun-bleached bones that still speak and long shadows that walk free in the night. There is water there,…
Captian's Log The End of a Rope 24 Feb 2023 The only sound he made was a startled shout when the door opened up beneath him. It was quickly cut short when his neck broke. I gazed up at the…
Captian's Log Sonnet: Murder 25 Oct 2022 Please Read: Murder What fateful circuits ring above us now who with our hempen collars wait to fall— but not to meet the earth—for by this bough upheld, our necks…
Captian's Log Haunted Hanging 7 Oct 2022 They hung him on a Saturday,and by that ev'ning filled his grave.In potter's field his body lay.For him no tongue a prayer gave. But in that night new terrors crept.A…
Captian's Log Poem: Graveyard’s Crooked Path 30 May 2018 Please read: Graveyard’s Crooked Path Snippet: Down by the Graveyard’s Crooked Path—so named, for that’s the way pallbearers bear their load— a winding course, a twisted pave-d road, I came unto…