Captian's Log The Masked Devil 13 Jan 202013 Jan 2020 The dissonant chords broke through the haze of my clouded thoughts, interrupting my troubled revelries. The figurine of Satan twirled as the music box ground out its pre-written tune. The…
Captian's Log Drabble: The Mask 27 Nov 2019 “You can never take it off again once you put it on.” I knew the words were true as he said them, and I looked down at the inside of…
Captian's Log The Court of the Spider Queen 13 Jun 2019 The queen wears a mask of white, her face covered in pale porcelain. She paints it not, unlike her noble court-goers, her rich slaves. They all wear masks, but her…
Captian's Log Daydream: Masks 7 Mar 2019 “The masks make us their slaves. They wear us.” The youth looked into the cut out eyes of the bandana he’d home-brewed into a disguise. Did they look back into…
Captian's Log The Hypocrite 26 Dec 2018 This was the moment: behind the curtain, the lights off, the stage set. My mind emptied of all but the character. Still, some small part of me remained, could hear…
Captian's Log Poem: I Must Return 27 Apr 201828 Apr 2018 Read: I Must Return Over my lands of golden grain fed on crystal springs, where plains of harvest their wide fields spread, where rivers as sure —as bold—their deepness runs…
Captian's Log The Mask of Religion 30 Sep 2017 I asked myself, this afternoon, what was more important, whether the outward actions of a body or the inner resolutions of a heart evinced the goodness of a person. Specifically,…