Captian's Log Escape 22 Sep 202421 Sep 2024 The scanty dancers seemed unconcerned with the looming clouds. There was music in the desert, and the heat had fled, though they were still sweating. Sweet and tender was evening…
Captian's Log Whispers in the Reeds 29 Aug 202427 Aug 2024 A song is heard between the sinking mire and the looming, grey sky. Before the storm had come, the reeds whispered. Such is the way of dreams, and secrets pave…
Captian's Log Song of the Road 29 Feb 2024 There are a thousand ways, a billion paths, and yet one road is right. A road, a hard and dreary road, the only road that leads me home. And oh!…
Captian's Log Song Beyond the Hills 8 Jan 20247 Jan 2024 What song is sung beyond the hills?What tune reaches my ear?This melody my longing thrillsthough I can barely hear. Sing on sweet maid I'll never know;sing sweet and soft tonight.I…
Captian's Log A Quiet Rest 8 Nov 20234 Nov 2023 The dream grows so faint now, and the obsidian spire, so like a darkened gash, rises in the sky, a starless darkness, and the silence of this pointed rock chills…
Captian's Log You’re Right, I’m Left 29 Oct 202328 Oct 2023 You're right, I broke my heart again, and I fear I really did a number this time, 'cause I don't want it to beat again. No, no, don't beat, don't…
Captian's Log Just a Dream 28 Oct 2023 A dream befriends a dreamer in the nighta song, a singer under stage-lighta wish, a child, a promise made,and I know that I'll fadefor all is transitory hereand all is…
Captian's Log The Dead Go Walking in the Night 25 Oct 2023 The dead go walking in the nightThe dead were walking in my sightThe dead go strolling through the parkThe dead went strolling after dark And I am mad or drunk…
Captian's Log Disturbed Rest 1 Jul 202324 Jun 2023 "I keep waking up at night," I proclaim to my distracted roommates. "It's that—" I hold off the ready expletive, "—music." I glance around the small, busy kitchen, wondering if…
Captian's Log The Sanctuary 10 May 2023 The sanctuary was made of glass, like a diamond. Inside, all was light and beauty. I felt a bubbling joy building inside me, wanting to escape like laughter, but with…